Polarization Correlometry of Scattering Biological Tissues and Fluids (eBook)

Contents 6
1 Introduction 8
1.1 Vector-Parametric Reconstruction of the Distributions of Birefringence and Dichroism of Networks of Biological Crystals 8
1.2 Polarization-Correlation Analysis of Images of Optically Anisotropic Biological Layers 9
1.3 Fundamentals of Stokes Polarimetry of the Optical Anisotropy 11
1.4 Theory of the Method of Polarization-Correlation Stokes-Polarimetry of the Optical Anisotropy 17
1.5 Analytical Foundations of 3D Mueller-Matrix Mapping 22
References 25
2 Materials and Methods 29
2.1 Experimental Setup of Mueller-Polarimeter 29
2.2 Optical Scheme and 3D Mueller-Matrix Polarimetry Technique 32
References 35
3 Results and Discussion 37
3.1 Polarization-Phase Matrix Reconstruction of the Structural Anisotropy Distributions of Fibrillar Networks of Biological Tissues 37
3.1.1 Samples Preparation 38
3.1.2 Matrix Reconstruction of the Phase and Amplitude Anisotropy of Myocardium Layers 38
3.2 Mueller-Matrix-Based Polarization Imaging and Quantitative Assessment of Optically Anisotropic Polycrystalline Networks 40
3.2.1 Samples, Preparation and Statistical Validation 40
3.2.2 Stokes Parametric Mapping of Biological Tissues Layers 41
3.3 Differential Mapping of the Diffuse Component of the Polarization Matrix of Myosin Networks of Myocardium Samples 52
3.4 Differentiation of Polarization-Phase Diffuse Maps of Optical Anisotropy of Biological Preparations of Various Morphological Structures and Pathological Conditions 54
3.5 Structural Analysis of the Coordinate Distributions of the Elements of the Mueller Matrix of Depolarizing Layers Biological Tissues 57
3.6 3D Matrix Reconstruction of the Polycrystalline Structure of Depolarizing Blood Films for Cancer Diagnosis 62
3.6.1 Samples 64
3.6.2 Results and Discussion 64
3.6.2.1 Layered Maps of Fluctuations in the Parameters of Phase Anisotropy of a Partially Depolarizing Polycrystalline Film of Blood 64
3.6.2.2 3D Mueller-Matrix Differentiation of Diffuse Polycrystalline Films of Blood 66
3.7 “Two-Point” Vector-Parametric Analysis of Polarization-Inhomogeneous Images of Networks of Biological Crystallites 70
3.7.1 Results and Discussion 72
3.7.1.1 Polarization-Correlation Maps of Samples of Rat Kidney 72
3.7.1.2 Polarization-Correlation Maps of Samples of Rat Liver 75
References 79
4 Conclusions 81