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Singh MD, Vitkin IA. Discriminating turbid media by scatterer size and scattering coefficient using backscattered linearly and circularly polarized light. BIOMEDICAL OPTICS EXPRESS 2021; 12:6831-6843. [PMID: 34858683 PMCID: PMC8606157 DOI: 10.1364/boe.438631] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/23/2021] [Revised: 09/22/2021] [Accepted: 10/03/2021] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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The effects of scatterer size and scattering coefficient on backscattered linearly and circularly polarized light are investigated through Stokes polarimetry. High-SNR polarization modulation/synchronous detection measurements are corroborated by polarization-sensitive Monte Carlo simulations. Circular degree of polarization (DOP) is found to be sensitive to scatterer size, but is equivocal at times due to helicity flipping effects; linear DOP appears to be mostly dependent on the medium scattering coefficient. We exploit these trends to generate a DOPC - DOPL response surface which clusters turbid samples based on these medium properties. This work may prove useful in biomedicine, for example in noninvasive assessment of epithelial precancer progression.
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- Michael D. Singh
- Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
- Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
- Division of Biophysics and Bioimaging, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada
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Seow KLC, Török P, Foreman MR. Single pixel polarimetric imaging through scattering media. OPTICS LETTERS 2020; 45:5740-5743. [PMID: 33057273 DOI: 10.1364/ol.399554] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/04/2020] [Accepted: 09/04/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Polarimetric imaging can provide valuable information about biological samples in a wide range of applications. Detrimental tissue scattering and depolarization however currently hamper in vivo polarization imaging. In this work, single pixel imaging is investigated as a means of reconstructing polarimetric images through scattering media. A theoretical imaging model is presented, and the recovery of the spatially resolved Mueller matrix of a test object behind a scattering phantom is demonstrated experimentally.
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Macdonald CM, Kunnen B, Stayner C, Eccles MR. Designing phantoms to accurately replicate circular depolarization in biological scattering media. APPLIED OPTICS 2019; 58:9577-9584. [PMID: 31873556 DOI: 10.1364/ao.58.009577] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/03/2019] [Accepted: 10/27/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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We introduce an iterative method for designing optical phantoms that are able to replicate the depolarization profiles of various target media, including colloidal suspensions of Intralipid, bovine milk, and ex vivo samples of ovine kidney cortex tissue. The designed phantoms comprise spherical scattering particles with fine-tuned size distributions and are capable of simultaneously reproducing spatially resolved intensity measurements and depolarization measurements of target media when illuminated with circularly polarized light.
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Chu J, Wu Q, Zeng X, Li Y. Forward transmission characteristics in polystyrene solution with different concentrations by use of circularly and linearly polarized light. APPLIED OPTICS 2019; 58:6750-6754. [PMID: 31503642 DOI: 10.1364/ao.58.006750] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/20/2019] [Accepted: 07/26/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Polarized light forward propagation in scattering environments is important basic research. Polystyrene microspheres in water are common scattering environments that can be helpful to investigate in existing literature research. In this paper, we investigated the polarization state persistence of both linearly and circularly polarized light. We used a single active source with a wavelength of 532 nm to illuminate 1 μm diameter polystyrene spheres immersed in water. To evaluate the polarization state persistence of linearly and circularly polarized light, a parameter change of polarization state was used to replace the Stokes parameters. In the setting environments of different concentrations, circularly polarized light has superior polarization state persistence to that of linearly polarized light.
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Zhang Y, Liu H, Huang N, Wang Z. Discrete image recovery via stochastic resonance in optically induced photonic lattices. Sci Rep 2019; 9:11815. [PMID: 31413338 PMCID: PMC6694193 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-48313-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/08/2019] [Accepted: 07/29/2019] [Indexed: 12/01/2022] Open
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We demonstrate numerically the discrete image recovery via stochastic resonance in optically induced photonic lattices. The underlying signals are regularly reinforced at the expense of scattering noise with the interplay of the periodic potentials and the self-focusing nonlinearity. We founded that the energy redistribution tends to be periodic and the signal reinforcement is promoted with the help of periodic potentials. The lattice intensity levels, applied voltages, and correlation lengths are important parameters to influence the recovery effects. The dynamic nonlinear evolution including intensity and power spectrum is modeled according to the two-dimensional quasi-particle motion model. Our results suggest a potential technology to detect the noisy images.
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- Yongbin Zhang
- State Key Laboratory of Transient Optics and Photonics, Xi'an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi'an, 710119, China.,University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100084, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Transient Optics and Photonics, Xi'an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi'an, 710119, China. .,Collaborative Innovation Center of Extreme Optics, Shanxi University, Taiyuan, 030006, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Transient Optics and Photonics, Xi'an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi'an, 710119, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Transient Optics and Photonics, Xi'an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi'an, 710119, China
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Wiest J, Bodenschatz N, Brandes A, Liemert A, Kienle A. Polarization influence on reflectance measurements in the spatial frequency domain. Phys Med Biol 2015; 60:5717-32. [PMID: 26158399 DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/60/15/5717] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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In this work, we quantify the influence of crossed polarizers on reflectance measurements in the spatial frequency domain. The use of crossed polarizers is a very common approach for suppression of specular surface reflections. However, measurements are typically evaluated using a non-polarized scalar theory. The consequences of this discrepancy are the focus of our study, and we also quantify the related errors of the derived optical properties. We used polarized Monte Carlo simulations for forward calculation of the reflectance from different samples. The samples' scatterers are assumed to be spherical, allowing for the calculation of the scattering functions by Mie theory. From the forward calculations, the reduced scattering coefficient [Formula: see text] and the absorption coefficient μa were derived by means of a scalar theory, as commonly used. Here, we use the analytical solution of the scalar radiative transfer equation. With this evaluation approach, which does not consider polarization, we found large errors in [Formula: see text] and μa in the range of 25% and above. Furthermore, we investigated the applicability of the use of a reference measurement to reduce these errors as suggested in literature. We found that this method is not able to generally improve the accuracy of measurements in the spatial frequency domain. Our general recommendation is to apply a polarized theory when using crossed polarizers.
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- J Wiest
- Institut für Lasertechnologien in der Medizin und Meßtechnik, Helmholtzstr. 12, D-89081 Ulm, Germany
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Zhao Y, Tu H, Liu Y, Bower AJ, Boppart SA. Enhancement of optical coherence microscopy in turbid media by an optical parametric amplifier. JOURNAL OF BIOPHOTONICS 2015; 8:512-21. [PMID: 25196251 PMCID: PMC4370812 DOI: 10.1002/jbio.201400073] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/07/2014] [Revised: 08/05/2014] [Accepted: 08/07/2014] [Indexed: 05/10/2023]
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We report the enhancement in imaging performance of a spectral-domain optical coherence microscope (OCM) in turbid media by incorporating an optical parametric amplifier (OPA). The OPA provides a high level of optical gain to the sample arm, thereby improving the signal-to-noise ratio of the OCM by a factor of up to 15 dB. A unique nonlinear confocal gate is automatically formed in the OPA, which enables selective amplification of singly scattered (ballistic) photons against the multiply-scattered light background. Simultaneous enhancement in both imaging depth and spatial resolution in imaging microstructures in highly light-scattering media are demonstrated with the combined OPA-OCM setup. Typical OCM inteferograms (left) and images (right) without and with OPA.
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- Youbo Zhao
- Biophotonics Imaging Laboratory, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 61801, Urbana, IL, USA
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- Biophotonics Imaging Laboratory, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 61801, Urbana, IL, USA
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- Biophotonics Imaging Laboratory, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 61801, Urbana, IL, USA
- Department of Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 61801, Urbana, IL, USA
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- Biophotonics Imaging Laboratory, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 61801, Urbana, IL, USA
- Department of Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 61801, Urbana, IL, USA
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- Biophotonics Imaging Laboratory, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 61801, Urbana, IL, USA.
- Department of Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 61801, Urbana, IL, USA.
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 61801, Urbana, IL, USA.
- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 61801, Urbana, IL, USA.
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van der Laan JD, Scrymgeour DA, Kemme SA, Dereniak EL. Detection range enhancement using circularly polarized light in scattering environments for infrared wavelengths. APPLIED OPTICS 2015; 54:2266-74. [PMID: 25968509 DOI: 10.1364/ao.54.002266] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/02/2023]
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We find for infrared wavelengths that there are broad ranges of particle sizes and refractive indices that represent fog and rain, where circular polarization can persist to longer ranges than linear polarization. Using polarization tracking Monte Carlo simulations for varying particle size, wavelength, and refractive index, we show that, for specific scene parameters, circular polarization outperforms linear polarization in maintaining the illuminating polarization state for large optical depths. This enhancement with circular polarization can be exploited to improve range and target detection in obscurant environments that are important in many critical sensing applications. Initially, researchers employed polarization-discriminating schemes, often using linearly polarized active illumination, to further distinguish target signals from the background noise. More recently, researchers have investigated circular polarization as a means to separate signal from noise even more. Specifically, we quantify both linearly and circularly polarized active illumination and show here that circular polarization persists better than linear for radiation fog in the short-wave infrared, for advection fog in the short-wave and long-wave infrared, and large particle sizes of Sahara dust around the 4 μm wavelength. Conversely, we quantify where linear polarization persists better than circular polarization for some limited particle sizes of radiation fog in the long-wave infrared, small particle sizes of Sahara dust for wavelengths of 9-10.5 μm, and large particle sizes of Sahara dust through the 8-11 μm wavelength range in the long-wave infrared.
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Zhao Y, Adie SG, Tu H, Liu Y, Graf BW, Chaney EJ, Marjanovic M, Boppart SA. Optical parametrically gated microscopy in scattering media. OPTICS EXPRESS 2014; 22:22547-60. [PMID: 25321724 PMCID: PMC4247183 DOI: 10.1364/oe.22.022547] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/04/2014] [Revised: 08/18/2014] [Accepted: 08/22/2014] [Indexed: 05/25/2023]
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High-resolution imaging in turbid media has been limited by the intrinsic compromise between the gating efficiency (removal of multiply-scattered light background) and signal strength in the existing optical gating techniques. This leads to shallow depths due to the weak ballistic signal, and/or degraded resolution due to the strong multiply-scattering background--the well-known trade-off between resolution and imaging depth in scattering samples. In this work, we employ a nonlinear optics based optical parametric amplifier (OPA) to address this challenge. We demonstrate that both the imaging depth and the spatial resolution in turbid media can be enhanced simultaneously by the OPA, which provides a high level of signal gain as well as an inherent nonlinear optical gate. This technology shifts the nonlinear interaction to an optical crystal placed in the detection arm (image plane), rather than in the sample, which can be used to exploit the benefits given by the high-order parametric process and the use of an intense laser field. The coherent process makes the OPA potentially useful as a general-purpose optical amplifier applicable to a wide range of optical imaging techniques.
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- Youbo Zhao
- Biophotonics Imaging Laboratory, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801,
USA
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- Biophotonics Imaging Laboratory, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801,
USA
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- Biophotonics Imaging Laboratory, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801,
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- Biophotonics Imaging Laboratory, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801,
USA
- Department of Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801,
USA
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- Biophotonics Imaging Laboratory, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801,
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801,
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- Biophotonics Imaging Laboratory, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801,
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- Biophotonics Imaging Laboratory, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801,
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- Biophotonics Imaging Laboratory, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801,
USA
- Department of Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801,
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801,
USA
- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801,
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Layden D, Ghosh N, Vitkin A. Quantitative Polarimetry for Tissue Characterization and Diagnosis. ADVANCED BIOPHOTONICS 2013. [DOI: 10.1201/b15256-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/23/2023]
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Gomes AJ, Backman V. Analytical light reflectance models for overlapping illumination and collection area geometries. APPLIED OPTICS 2012. [PMID: 23207312 PMCID: PMC3655705 DOI: 10.1364/ao.51.008013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/12/2023]
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Several biomedical applications, such as detection of dysplasia, require selective interrogation of superficial tissue structures less than a few hundred micrometers thick. Techniques and methods have been developed to limit the penetration depth of light in tissue, including the design of systems such as fiber-optic probes that have overlapping illumination and collection areas on the tissue surface. For such geometries, the diffusion approximation to the light-transport equation typically does not apply, and as a result there is no general model to extract tissue optical properties from reflectance measurements. In the current study, we employ Monte Carlo (MC) simulations to develop simple and compact analytical models for the light reflectance from these overlapping geometries. These models incorporate the size of the illumination and collection areas, the collection angle, the polarization of the incident light, and the optical properties of the sample. Moreover, these MC simulations use the Whittle-Matérn model to describe scattering from spatially continuous refractive index media such as tissue, which is more general than models based on the conventionally used Henyey-Greenstein model. We validated these models on tissue-simulating phantoms. The models developed herein will facilitate the extraction of optical properties and aid in the design of optical systems employing overlapping illumination and collection areas, including fiber-optic probes for in vivo tissue diagnosis.
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Ahmad M, Alali S, Kim A, Wood MFG, Ikram M, Vitkin IA. Do different turbid media with matched bulk optical properties also exhibit similar polarization properties? BIOMEDICAL OPTICS EXPRESS 2011; 2:3248-58. [PMID: 22162815 PMCID: PMC3233244 DOI: 10.1364/boe.2.003248] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/07/2011] [Revised: 10/05/2011] [Accepted: 10/06/2011] [Indexed: 05/02/2023]
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We here investigate polarimetric behavior of thick samples of porcine liver, Intralipid, and microsphere-based tissue phantoms whose absorption and scattering properties are matched. Using polarized light we measured reflection mode Mueller matrices and derived linear/circular/total depolarization rates, based on polar decomposition. According to our results, phantoms exhibit greater depolarization rates in the backscattering geometry than the liver sample. The enhanced tissue polarization preservation differs from previous reports of polarimetric transmission studies, with the likely cause of this difference being the angular dependence of the single-scattering phase function. Also, Intralipid approximated polarimetric liver behavior well, whereas the polystyrene phantoms did not.
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- Manzoor Ahmad
- Division of Biophysics and Bioimaging, Ontario Cancer Institute/University Health Network and Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto, 610 University Avenue, Toronto, Ontario M5G 2M9, Canada
- Department of Physics and Applied Mathematics, Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Islamabad 45650, Pakistan
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- Division of Biophysics and Bioimaging, Ontario Cancer Institute/University Health Network and Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto, 610 University Avenue, Toronto, Ontario M5G 2M9, Canada
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- Division of Biophysics and Bioimaging, Ontario Cancer Institute/University Health Network and Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto, 610 University Avenue, Toronto, Ontario M5G 2M9, Canada
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- Division of Biophysics and Bioimaging, Ontario Cancer Institute/University Health Network and Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto, 610 University Avenue, Toronto, Ontario M5G 2M9, Canada
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- Department of Physics and Applied Mathematics, Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Islamabad 45650, Pakistan
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- Division of Biophysics and Bioimaging, Ontario Cancer Institute/University Health Network and Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto, 610 University Avenue, Toronto, Ontario M5G 2M9, Canada
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Ghosh N, Vitkin IA. Tissue polarimetry: concepts, challenges, applications, and outlook. JOURNAL OF BIOMEDICAL OPTICS 2011; 16:110801. [PMID: 22112102 DOI: 10.1117/1.3652896] [Citation(s) in RCA: 236] [Impact Index Per Article: 18.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/02/2023]
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Polarimetry has a long and successful history in various forms of clear media. Driven by their biomedical potential, the use of the polarimetric approaches for biological tissue assessment has also recently received considerable attention. Specifically, polarization can be used as an effective tool to discriminate against multiply scattered light (acting as a gating mechanism) in order to enhance contrast and to improve tissue imaging resolution. Moreover, the intrinsic tissue polarimetry characteristics contain a wealth of morphological and functional information of potential biomedical importance. However, in a complex random medium-like tissue, numerous complexities due to multiple scattering and simultaneous occurrences of many scattering and polarization events present formidable challenges both in terms of accurate measurements and in terms of analysis of the tissue polarimetry signal. In order to realize the potential of the polarimetric approaches for tissue imaging and characterization/diagnosis, a number of researchers are thus pursuing innovative solutions to these challenges. In this review paper, we summarize these and other issues pertinent to the polarized light methodologies in tissues. Specifically, we discuss polarized light basics, Stokes-Muller formalism, methods of polarization measurements, polarized light modeling in turbid media, applications to tissue imaging, inverse analysis for polarimetric results quantification, applications to quantitative tissue assessment, etc.
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- Nirmalya Ghosh
- Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Department of Physical Sciences, Kolkata, Mohanpur, West Bengal, India.
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Varghese B, Verhagen R, Tai Q, Hussain A, Boudot C, Uzunbajakava N. Contrast improvement in scattered light confocal imaging of skin birefringent structures by depolarization detection. JOURNAL OF BIOPHOTONICS 2011; 4:850-858. [PMID: 22012914 DOI: 10.1002/jbio.201100063] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/15/2011] [Revised: 10/03/2011] [Accepted: 10/04/2011] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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Here we describe a method for enhancing the contrast in imaging skin birefringent structures. The method relies on polarization-dependent optical properties and is implemented using cross polarized confocal microscopy. The experimental data obtained using ex-vivo and in-vivo measurements on human scalp hairs and human skin demonstrate a significant dependence of the change in polarization of light that interacted with the birefringent hair on the orientation of the incident polarization. The polarization dependent contrast, defined as the ratio of intensity measured for different orientations of the incident polarization when observed using cross polarized confocal microscopy furthermore depends on the hair type/degree of pigmentation and on the focusing depth inside the hair. No such dependence was observed for the upper skin layers, including the stratum corneum and epidermis. We propose a new method for enhancing the contrast between the skin and the birefringent hair by the use of cross polarized confocal microscopy combined with the variation of the polarization of the incoming light. Potential applications of this method include imaging of hairs for assessing the efficacy of hair removal methods and measurement of skin birefringence. The underestimation of the birefringence content resulting from the orientation related effects associated with the use of linearly polarized light for imaging tissues containing wavy birefringent structures could be minimized by this method.
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- Babu Varghese
- Care and Health Applications Group, Philips Research Europe, High Tech Campus 34, 5656 AE Eindhoven, The Netherlands.
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Kim J, John R, Wu PJ, Martini MC, Walsh JT. In vivo characterization of human pigmented lesions by degree of linear polarization image maps using incident linearly polarized light. Lasers Surg Med 2010; 42:76-85. [PMID: 20077491 DOI: 10.1002/lsm.20866] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Melanoma is the most serious form of skin cancer and often appears as an evolving multicolored skin growth. It is well documented that pre-existing atypical or dysplastic nevi can evolve into a melanoma. The development of an in vivo imaging system to characterize benign and malignant nevi has been emphasized to aid in early detection of melanoma. The goal of this study is to utilize a novel Stokes polarimetry imaging (SPI) system for the characterization of pigmented lesions, and to evaluate the SPI system in comparison to dermoscopy and histology images. STUDY DESIGN/MATERIALS AND METHODS Linearly polarized light with varying incident polarization angles (IPA) illuminated various types of pigmented lesions. The melanocytic nesting patterns of pigmented lesions were characterized by constructing the degree-of-linear-polarization (DOLP) image map with comparison to dermoscopy and histology. The incident polarized light was filtered by visible filters for spectral imaging and incident deeply penetrating red light was used to correlate the SPI image with histopathological examination. RESULTS The DOLP images with varying IPA at different visible wavelengths were used to characterize various kinds of pigmented lesions by showing subsurface melanocytic nesting distribution as well as morphological information with better resolution and contrast. In correlation with dermoscopy and histology, various defining features such as compound, junctional, lentiginous, reticular, globular patterns of melanocytic nests were identified. CONCLUSION When imaging pigmented melanocytic lesions, the SPI system with varying IPA at the red light wavelength can better define the melanocytic nesting patterns in both the dermal epidermal junction and the dermis. The SPI system has the potential to be an effective in vivo method of detecting pre-malignant nevi and melanoma.
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- Jihoon Kim
- Biomedical Engineering Department, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, USA
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Shukla P, Pradhan A. Polarization-gated imaging in tissue phantoms: effect of size distribution. APPLIED OPTICS 2009; 48:6099-6104. [PMID: 19904305 DOI: 10.1364/ao.48.006099] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
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We have investigated the effect of size distribution of aqueous solutions of monodisperse and a mixture of polydisperse scatterers of two different sizes on the image quality using linear and circularly polarized light. The contrast and resolution are affected by the size distribution present in the mixture of a polydisperse medium, while they are affected by the refractive index in a monodisperse medium. Circularly polarized light improves image quality of polydisperse scatterers. Images in the polydisperse medium are retrieved for values of optical thickness less than those of the large-sized monodisperse medium. We offer plausible explanations for all the experimental observations.
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- Prashant Shukla
- Department of Physics and Center for Laser Technology, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh 208016, India
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Berrocal E, Sedarsky DL, Paciaroni ME, Meglinski IV, Linne MA. Laser light scattering in turbid media Part II: Spatial and temporal analysis of individual scattering orders via Monte Carlo simulation. OPTICS EXPRESS 2009; 17:13792-809. [PMID: 19654786 DOI: 10.1364/oe.17.013792] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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In Part I of this study [1], good agreement between experimental measurements and results from Monte Carlo simulations were obtained for the spatial intensity distribution of a laser beam propagating within a turbid environment. In this second part, the validated Monte Carlo model is used to investigate spatial and temporal effects from distinct scattering orders on image formation. The contribution of ballistic photons and the first twelve scattering orders are analyzed individually by filtering the appropriate data from simulation results. Side-scattering and forward-scattering detection geometries are investigated and compared. We demonstrate that the distribution of positions for the final scattering events is independent of particle concentration when considering a given scattering order in forward detection. From this observation, it follows that the normalized intensity distribution of each order, in both space and time, is independent of the number density of particles. As a result, the amount of transmitted information is constant for a given scattering order and is directly related to the phase function in association with the detection acceptance angle. Finally, a contrast analysis is performed in order to quantify this information at the image plane.
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- Edouard Berrocal
- Department of Combustion Physics, Lund Institute of Technology, Lund 221 00, Sweden.
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Wang F. Binary phase masking for optical interrogation of matters in turbid media. OPTICS LETTERS 2008; 33:2587-2589. [PMID: 19015676 DOI: 10.1364/ol.33.002587] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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For optically interrogating substances overlaid by turbid media, a method of wavefront manipulation by means of binary phase masking is proposed. Through altering the degree of mode matching between the fields reaching the collection optics and the field distribution of the propagation mode of single-mode waveguides, the proposed method can be used to suppress the collection of short-range light originated near the collection optics while permitting unimpeded collection of light originated from sites substantially behind turbid media. General description of the principles is accompanied by a numerical modeling. A group of binary phase masks, mutually orthogonal, are introduced for practical applications.
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Kinnunen M, Myllylä R, Vainio S. Detecting glucose-induced changes in in vitro and in vivo experiments with optical coherence tomography. JOURNAL OF BIOMEDICAL OPTICS 2008; 13:021111. [PMID: 18465960 DOI: 10.1117/1.2904957] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/07/2023]
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Optical clearing is a well-known phenomenon. It is based on the matching of refractive indices of a bulk material and scattering particles. The same principle is also used in scattering-based optical measurements of different constituents, such as glucose. By registering changes in scattering, it is possible to evaluate changes in the concentration of a solvent. This work describes the use of optical coherence tomography (OCT) to monitor glucose-induced changes in the optical properties of samples. Intralipid, mouse skin tissue, and mice (C57BL) are used as samples. Differences between in vitro and in vivo measurement conditions, the effect of glucose on the samples' optical properties, as well as possible problems in OCT experiments are discussed. A comparison of OCT signals from mouse skin samples and mice in vivo shows that the intensity of backscattered radiation is stronger in a living animal than in cultured tissue. Moreover, the effect of glucose on the scattering properties is larger in an in vivo case than in an in vitro case. In comparison with tissue, the effect of glucose is the smallest in Intralipid. The results increase the value of using cultured tissue in developing optical sensing techniques.
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- Matti Kinnunen
- University of Oulu, Optoelectronics and Measurement Techniques Laboratory and Infotech Oulu, Department of Electrical and Information Engineering, P.O. Box 4500, FIN-90014 Oulu, Finland.
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Shukla P, Sumathi R, Gupta S, Pradhan A. Influence of size parameter and refractive index of the scatterer on polarization-gated optical imaging through turbid media. JOURNAL OF THE OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA. A, OPTICS, IMAGE SCIENCE, AND VISION 2007; 24:1704-13. [PMID: 17491639 DOI: 10.1364/josaa.24.001704] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/02/2023]
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The influence of incident polarized light, refractive index, and size parameter of the scatterer on achievable resolution and contrast (image quality) of polarization-gated transillumination imaging in turbid media is reported here. Differential polarization detection led to significant improvement of image quality of an object embedded in a medium of small-sized scatterers (diameter D<<lambda, isotropic scattering medium, anisotropy parameter g<or=0.2), especially using circular polarization. In contrast, for anisotropic scattering media composed of larger-sized scatterers (D>or=lambda,g>or=0.7), the improvement in image quality was less pronounced using either linear or circular polarization gating when the refractive index of the scatterer was high (ns=1.59), but for a lower value of refractive index (ns=1.37), image quality improved with the differential circular polarization gating. We offer a plausible explanation for these observations.
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- Prashant Shukla
- Department of Physics and Center for Laser Technology, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India
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Wu PJ, Walsh JT. Stokes polarimetry imaging of rat-tail tissue in a turbid medium using incident circularly polarized light. Lasers Surg Med 2006; 37:396-406. [PMID: 16365886 DOI: 10.1002/lsm.20242] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES We describe a Stokes polarimetry imaging technique that quantifies the polarization properties of remitted light backscattered from a sample. STUDY DESIGN/MATERIALS AND METHODS Right- and left-circularly polarized near-infrared light was used to illuminate rat-tail tissue embedded in turbid gelatin. RESULTS The degree of linear polarization (DoLP) and degree of circular polarization (DoCP) image-maps indicate that increasing the depth of the rat tail within the turbid medium and varying the rat-tail geometry and orientation relative to the light source affected the contrast between structures and adjacent tissue layers. CONCLUSION Stokes polarimetry imaging shows that the intervertebral discs and soft tissue regions of rat tails strongly depolarize incident circularly polarized light. Tendon regions remit light with a more linear form due to birefringence. Both DoLP and DoCP image-maps provide contrast between tissue structures. When differentiating between unpolarized light and light with low DoCP or DoLP, the polarization of backscattered light from the turbid medium must to be taken into consideration.
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- Paul J Wu
- Biomedical Engineering Department, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, USA
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Wu PJ, Walsh JT. Stokes polarimetry imaging of rat tail tissue in a turbid medium: degree of linear polarization image maps using incident linearly polarized light. JOURNAL OF BIOMEDICAL OPTICS 2006; 11:014031. [PMID: 16526908 DOI: 10.1117/1.2162851] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/07/2023]
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Illumination with incident linearly polarized light on tissue and polarization state measurements of the remitted light provide a means by which various tissue structures can be differentiated. A rat tail is embedded within a turbid gelatin such that there is a variable depth of medium above it. By varying the incident polarization angle (IPA) of the illuminating linearly polarized light, the geometry, and the orientation angle of the tissue, a series of 2-D degree of linear polarization image maps are created using our Stokes polarimetry imaging technique. The image maps show locations of the polarization-sensitive structures in the rat tail, including soft tissue, intervertebral disks, and tendons. The observed morphologies in the image maps indicate locations where the depolarization of light differs according to the tissue type and underlying layers. The data indicate the importance of varying the IPA, and that tissue dichroism and birefringence affect the degree of linear polarization image maps. Diagnostic information regarding subsurface tissue structures is obtained.
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- Paul J Wu
- Northwestern University, Biomedical Engineering Department, Evanston, Illinois 60208, USA
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Karlsson MGD, Wårdell K. Polarized laser Doppler perfusion imaging--reduction of movement-induced artifacts. JOURNAL OF BIOMEDICAL OPTICS 2005; 10:064002. [PMID: 16409068 DOI: 10.1117/1.2120467] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/06/2023]
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Laser Doppler perfusion imaging (LDPI) enables superficial tissue perfusion assessment, but is sensitive to tissue motion not related to blood cells. The aim was to investigate if a polarization technique could reduce movement-induced artifacts. A linearly polarized laser and a cross-polarized filter, placed in front of the detectors, were used to block specular reflection. Measurements were performed with, and without, the polarization filter, at a single site during horizontal and vertical movement of skin tissue (index finger, twelve subjects, n = 112) and of a flow model (n = 432), with varying surface structures. Measurements were repeated during different flow conditions and at increased skin specular reflection. Statistical analysis was performed using ANOVA models. The perfusion signal was lower (p < 0.001, skin and p < 0.05, flow model) using the polarization filter, due to movement artifact reduction. No significant influence from surface structure was found when using the polarization filter. Movement artifacts were lower (p < 0.05) in the vertical movement direction, however, depending on flow conditions for skin measurements. Increased skin specular reflection gave rise to large movement artifacts without the polarization filter. In conclusion, the polarized LDPI technique reduces movement artifacts and is particularly appropriate when assessing, e.g., ulcers and burns, where specular reflection is high.
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- M G D Karlsson
- Linköping University, Department of Biomedical Engineering and Competence Centre for Non-invasive Medical Measurements (NIMED), Sweden.
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Angelsky OV, Ushenko AG, Ushenko YA, Ushenko YG, Tomka YY, Pishak VP. Polarization-correlation mapping of biological tissue coherent images. JOURNAL OF BIOMEDICAL OPTICS 2005; 10:064025. [PMID: 16409090 DOI: 10.1117/1.2148251] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/06/2023]
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We investigate the statistical polarization parameters of biological tissue histological section images with different morphological structure. First we outline the results of polarization coordinate mapping and analysis of the statistics of the first to fourth orders of biological tissue image polarization azimuth and ellipticities. Second, we study the statistics of the first to fourth orders of coordinate distributions of the complex degree of mutual polarization (CDMP) of biological tissue images. Finally, we consider the diagnostic possibilities of investigating 2-D distributions of CDMP of images that correspond to physiologically normal and degeneratively and/or dystrophycally changed biological tissues that are being analyzed.
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- O V Angelsky
- Chernivtsi National University, 2 Kotsyubinsky Street, Chernivtsi 58012, Ukraine
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Ghosh N, Pradhan A, Gupta PK, Gupta S, Jaiswal V, Singh RP. Depolarization of light in a multiply scattering medium: effect of the refractive index of a scatterer. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2004; 70:066607. [PMID: 15697526 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.70.066607] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/08/2004] [Indexed: 05/15/2023]
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We report the results of a study carried out to investigate the influence of the refractive index and size parameter of a scatterer on the depolarization of linearly and circularly polarized light in a turbid medium. The results show that for a given refractive index of the surrounding medium, the influence of the refractive index of the scatterer on the depolarization of both linearly and circularly polarized light is rather weak for samples with smaller-sized scatterers (Rayleigh scatterers, radius a<<lambda , anisotropy parameter g < or =0.2 ). For a given value of optical thickness (tau= mu(s) xd , mu(s) being the scattering coefficient, d the physical thickness), the depolarization of circularly polarized light was observed to be higher than that of linearly polarized light for these samples. In contrast, for samples prepared using larger-sized scatterers (Mie scatterers, a > or =lambda , g > or =0.7), linearly polarized light was observed to depolarize much faster than circularly polarized light when the refractive index of scatterers was large (n=1.59) but no appreciable difference in depolarization of linearly and circularly polarized light was observed when the refractive index of scatterers had a lower value (n=1.37) . Further, for scattering samples having Mie scatterers, for comparable values of tau and g , depolarization of polarized light was much higher for samples with scatterers of lower refractive index.
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- Nirmalya Ghosh
- Biomedical Applications Section, Center for Advanced Technology, Indore, India
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Sokolov K, Nieman LT, Myakov A, Gillenwater A. Polarized reflectance spectroscopy for pre-cancer detection. Technol Cancer Res Treat 2004; 3:1-14. [PMID: 14750888 DOI: 10.1177/153303460400300101] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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Early detection of cancer and its curable precursors remains the best way to ensure patient survival and quality of life. Thus, highly selective, sensitive and cost-effective screening and diagnostic techniques to identify curable pre-cancerous lesions are desperately needed. Precancers are characterized by increased nuclear size, increased nuclear/cytoplasmic ratio, hyperchromasia and pleomorphism, which currently can only be assessed through an invasive, painful biopsy. Here, we describe the development of a non-invasive optical technique based on polarized reflectance spectroscopy that has the potential to provide in real time diagnostically useful information for pre-cancer detection. Our results demonstrate that polarized reflectance spectroscopy can be used to selectively detect the size-dependent scattering characteristics of nuclei in vivo. We gradually progress from cell suspensions to realistic three-dimensional tissue models of epithelium, then to cervical biopsies and, finally to in vivo studies on normal volunteers and clinical patients.
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- Konstantin Sokolov
- Department of Imaging Physics, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, 1515 Holcombe Blvd., Unit 56, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
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Bartlett M, Huang G, Larcom L, Jiang H. Measurement of particle size distribution in mammalian cells in vitro by use of polarized light spectroscopy. APPLIED OPTICS 2004; 43:1296-1307. [PMID: 15008533 DOI: 10.1364/ao.43.001296] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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We demonstrate the feasibility of measuring the particle size distribution (PSD) of internal cell structures in vitro. We use polarized light spectroscopy to probe the internal morphology of mammalian breast cancer (MCF7) and cervical cancer (Siha) cells. We find that graphing the least-squared error versus the scatterer size provides insight into cell scattering. A nonlinear optimization scheme is used to determine the PSD iteratively. The results suggest that 2-microm particles (possibly the mitochondria) contribute most to the scattering. Other subcellular structures, such as the nucleoli and the nucleus, may also contribute significantly. We reconstruct the PSD of the mitochondria, as verified by optical microscopy. We also demonstrate the angle dependence of the PSD.
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- Matthew Bartlett
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina 29634, USA
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Sun CW, Liu KC, Wang YM, Wang HH, Kiang YW, Liu HK, Yang CC. Determination of target depth in a turbid medium with polarization-dependent transmitted signals. JOURNAL OF THE OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA. A, OPTICS, IMAGE SCIENCE, AND VISION 2003; 20:2106-2112. [PMID: 14620338 DOI: 10.1364/josaa.20.002106] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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We demonstrate a novel method for target depth determination in a turbid medium with experiments and Monte Carlo simulations. This method relies on the strong dependence of transmitted co-polarized intensity on target depth. Such a dependence originates from the inclusion of certain diffuse photons in the co-polarized intensity. A target of stronger scattering located closer to the transmitter results in stronger photon divergence and hence weaker co-polarized intensity at the receiver of a finite aperture. On the other hand, the degree of polarization (DOP) carries only information about ballistic and snake photons. It is weakly dependent on the target depth. The DOP data can be used as a reference of absolute scattering strength in the turbid system. Our experimental and Monte Carlo simulation results show the feasibility of the proposed target depth determination method. Meanwhile, it is shown that an appropriate time-gating process could help in improving the accuracy of target depth. In addition, the results show that the proposed method has quite large applicable ranges of scattering coefficient and absorption coefficient.
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- Chia-Wei Sun
- Graduate Institute of Electro-Optical Engineering, Graduate Institute of Communication Engineering and Department of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University, No. 1, Section 4, Roosevelt Road, Taipei, Taiwan
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Wang X, Wang LV, Sun CW, Yang CC. Polarized light propagation through scattering media: time-resolved Monte Carlo simulations and experiments. JOURNAL OF BIOMEDICAL OPTICS 2003; 8:608-617. [PMID: 14563198 DOI: 10.1117/1.1606462] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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A study of polarized light transmitted through randomly scattering media of a polystyrene-microsphere solution is described. Temporal profiles of the Stokes vectors and the degree of polarization are measured experimentally and calculated theoretically based on a Monte Carlo technique. The experimental results match the theoretical results well, which demonstrates that the time-resolved Monte Carlo technique is a powerful tool that can contribute to the understanding of polarization propagation in biological tissue. Analysis based on the Stokes-Mueller formalism and the Mie theory shows that the first scattering event determines the major spatial patterns of the transmitted Stokes vectors. When an area detected at the output surface of a turbid medium is circularly symmetrical about the incident beam, the temporal profile of the transmitted light is independent of the incident polarization state. A linear relationship between the average order of the scatters and the light propagation time can be used to explain the exponential decay of the degree of polarization of transmitted light.
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- Xueding Wang
- Texas A&M University, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Optical Imaging Laboratory, College Station, Texas 77843-3120, USA
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Sun CW, Yang CC, Kiang YW. Optical imaging based on time-resolved Stokes vectors in filamentous tissues. APPLIED OPTICS 2003; 42:750-754. [PMID: 12564496 DOI: 10.1364/ao.42.000750] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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Time-resolved Stokes vector components of light transmitted through filamentous tissues were measured with a view to improving the imaging quality of optical images in such tissues. Temporal profiles of the Stokes vectors and the time-resolved degree of polarization (DOP) were calibrated to produce higher image quality than that of images based on time gating, polarization discrimination, or both. A thin chicken bone inserted into chicken breast tissue with filament orientation in different directions with respect to the direction of input linear polarization was scanned to demonstrate images of higher spatial resolution and contrast based on the measurement of time-resolved DOP.
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- Chia-Wei Sun
- Graduate Institute of Electro-Optical Engineering, Department of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University, 1, Roosevelt Road, Section 4, Taipei, Taiwan
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Wang HH, Sun CW, Wang YM, Kiang YW, Yang CC. Determination of the depth of a scattering target in a turbid medium with polarization discrimination of transmitted signals. OPTICS LETTERS 2003; 28:25-27. [PMID: 12656524 DOI: 10.1364/ol.28.000025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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We demonstrate the feasibility of a novel method of determining target depth in a turbid medium through Monte Carlo simulations and experiments. The method is based on the strong and weak dependencies of the copolarized component and the degree of polarization (DOP), respectively, of the transmitted intensity on the target depth. The two-way measurements of the copolarized intensity can be used for determination of target depth, whereas the transversely scanned DOP results are used for estimating the two-dimensional image in a turbid system. The combination of these two sets of data could provide useful results for estimating three-dimensional images.
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- Hsiang-Hsu Wang
- Graduate Institute of Communication Engineering, National Taiwan University, 1, Roosevelt Road, Section 4, Taipei, Taiwan
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Wang X, Wang LV. Propagation of polarized light in birefringent turbid media: a Monte Carlo study. JOURNAL OF BIOMEDICAL OPTICS 2002; 7:279-90. [PMID: 12175276 DOI: 10.1117/1.1483315] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/22/2001] [Revised: 03/20/2002] [Accepted: 03/29/2002] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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A detailed study, based on a Monte Carlo algorithm, of polarized light propagation in birefringent turbid media is presented in this paper. Linear birefringence, which results from the fibrous structures, changes the single scattering matrix and alters the polarization states of photons propagating in biological tissues. Some Mueller matrix elements of light backscattered from birefringent anisotropic turbid media present unusual intensity patterns compared with those for nonbirefringent isotropic turbid media. This result is in good agreement with the analytic results based on the double-scattering model. Degree of polarization, Stokes parameters, and diffuse reflectance as functions of linearly birefringent parameters based on numerical results and theoretical analysis are discussed and compared in an effort to understand the essential physical processes of polarized light propagation in fibrous tissues.
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- Xueding Wang
- Texas A&M University, Optical Imaging Laboratory, Biomedical Engineering Program, 3120 TAMU, College Station, Texas 77843-3120, USA
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Li J, Yao G, Wang LV. Degree of polarization in laser speckles from turbid media: implications in tissue optics. JOURNAL OF BIOMEDICAL OPTICS 2002; 7:307-312. [PMID: 12175279 DOI: 10.1117/1.1483313] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/29/2001] [Revised: 03/20/2002] [Accepted: 03/29/2002] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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The degree of polarization (DOP) of laser-speckle fields, where the speckles were generated by a polarized laser beam incident upon two kinds of samples: ground glass and wax, was investigated within a single coherence area as well as over multiple coherence areas. For the surface-scattering ground glass, the incident polarization state was preserved in the speckle field, and hence the DOP remained at unity regardless of the area of detection. For the volume-scattering wax, the polarization states varied with positions in the field, and consequently the DOP depended on the area of detection: the DOP decreased with an increasing area of detection, and only when the area was much smaller than the coherence area would the DOP approach unity. A numerical simulation explained the experimental observation. These results are important for the understanding of polarization phenomena in turbid media such as biological tissue.
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- Jun Li
- Texas A&M University, Optical Imaging Laboratory, Biomedical Engineering Program, 3120 TAMU, College Station, Texas 77843-3120, USA
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Jacques SL, Ramella-Roman JC, Lee K. Imaging skin pathology with polarized light. JOURNAL OF BIOMEDICAL OPTICS 2002; 7:329-40. [PMID: 12175282 DOI: 10.1117/1.1484498] [Citation(s) in RCA: 137] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/18/2002] [Revised: 04/02/2002] [Accepted: 04/04/2002] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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Linearly polarized light that illuminates skin is backscattered by superficial layers and rapidly depolarized by birefringent collagen fibers. It is possible to distinguish such superficially backscattered light from the total diffusely reflected light that is dominated by light penetrating deeply into the dermis. The method involves acquisition of two images through an analyzing linear polarizer in front of the camera, one image (I(par)) acquired with the analyzer oriented parallel to the polarization of illumination and one image (I(per)) acquired with the analyzer oriented perpendicular to the illumination. An image based on the polarization ratio, Pol=(I(par)-I(per))/(I(par)+I(per)), is created. This paper compares normal light images, represented by I(per), and Pol images of various skin pathologies in a pilot clinical study using incoherent visible-spectrum light. Images include pigmented skin sites (freckle, tattoo, pigmented nevi) and unpigmented skin sites [nonpigmented intradermal nevus, neurofibroma, actinic keratosis, malignant basal cell carcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma, vascular abnormality (venous lake), burn scar]. Images of a shadow cast from a razor blade onto a forearm skin site illustrate the behavior of Pol values near the shadow edge. Near the shadow edge, Pol approximately doubles in value because no I(per) photons are superficially scattered into the shadow-edge pixels by the shadow region while I(par) photons are directly backscattered from the superficial layer of these pixels. This result suggests that the point spread function in skin for cross-talk between Pol pixels has a half-width-half-max of about 390 microm.
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- Steven L Jacques
- Oregon Health and Science University, Department of Dermatology, Portland, Oregon and Providence St. Vincent Medical Center, Oregon Medical Laser Center, Portland, Oregon, USA.
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Munin E, Longo VRC, Villaverde AB, Pacheco MTT. Analysis of the picosecond magneto-optical phenomena in scattering media of biological interest. Phys Med Biol 2002; 47:1519-34. [PMID: 12043817 DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/47/9/307] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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The behaviour of a magneto-optically active biological-like medium under picosecond optical excitation is analysed. The new technique is based on the fact that photons trapped in multiple scattering events inside the magneto-optical medium leave the medium with larger induced rotation angles, as they travel longer distances. Two- and three-dimensional displacements of the photons in the medium are separately analysed. The dependence of this effect on the applied magnetic field strength, the value of the magneto-optical constant of the medium and the standard deviation of the statistical distribution of the photons scattered inside the turbid medium are studied. The best values for the magnetic field and optical parameters of the biological medium are proposed for the experimental observation of the picosecond magneto-optical phenomena in scattering media of biological origin. We also make some prospective studies to evaluate the potential application of the magneto-optical effect as a tool for optical tissue biopsy. Values for the optimum magnetic field intensities and for the expected experimental sensitivity in diverse conditions are reported.
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- Egberto Munin
- IP&D-Universidade do Vale do Paraiba, São José dos Campos, SP, Brazil.
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Sokolov K, Galvan J, Myakov A, Lacy A, Lotan R, Richards-Kortum R. Realistic three-dimensional epithelial tissue phantoms for biomedical optics. JOURNAL OF BIOMEDICAL OPTICS 2002; 7:148-56. [PMID: 11818022 DOI: 10.1117/1.1427052] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/23/2001] [Revised: 07/23/2001] [Accepted: 08/17/2001] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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We introduce new realistic three-dimensional tissue phantoms which can help to understand the optical properties of human epithelium as well as the optical signatures associated with the dysplasia to carcinoma sequence. The phantoms are based on a step by step multilayer reconstitution of the epithelial tissue using main components characteristic for the human epithelium. Each consecutive step is aimed to increase the similarity between real tissue and a phantom. We began by modeling the stromal layer which predominantly consists of a network of collagen bundles. Phantoms consisting of a collagen matrix alone and in the presence of embedded cervical cells were created. Their morphology and fluorescence properties were studied and were compared with those of cervical epithelium. We show that the phantoms resemble the microstructure and the optical properties of the human epithelial tissue. We also demonstrate that the proposed phantoms provide an opportunity to study changes in optical properties of different tissue components as a result of their interactions with each other or exogenous factors.
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- Konstantin Sokolov
- University of Texas/Austin, Biomedical Engineering Program, Austin, Texas 78712, USA
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Gurjar RS, Backman V, Perelman LT, Georgakoudi I, Badizadegan K, Itzkan I, Dasari RR, Feld MS. Imaging human epithelial properties with polarized light-scattering spectroscopy. Nat Med 2001; 7:1245-8. [PMID: 11689891 DOI: 10.1038/nm1101-1245] [Citation(s) in RCA: 306] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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Biomedical imaging with light-scattering spectroscopy (LSS) is a novel optical technology developed to probe the structure of living epithelial cells in situ without need for tissue removal. LSS makes it possible to distinguish between single backscattering from epithelial-cell nuclei and multiply scattered light. The spectrum of the single backscattering component is further analyzed to provide quantitative information about the epithelial-cell nuclei such as nuclear size, degree of pleomorphism, degree of hyperchromasia and amount of chromatin. LSS imaging allows mapping these histological properties over wide areas of epithelial lining. Because nuclear enlargement, pleomorphism and hyperchromasia are principal features of nuclear atypia associated with precancerous and cancerous changes in virtually all epithelia, LSS imaging can be used to detect precancerous lesions in optically accessible organs.
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- R S Gurjar
- G.R. Harrison Spectroscopy Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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Kim AD, Moscoso M. Influence of the relative refractive index on the depolarization of multiply scattered waves. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2001; 64:026612. [PMID: 11497735 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.64.026612] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/08/2000] [Revised: 03/16/2001] [Indexed: 05/15/2023]
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Using the theory of radiative transfer, we investigate the interaction between polarized waves and a multiple scattering medium as functions of the relative index of refraction. To study this problem, we consider circularly and linearly polarized continuous waves incident upon a medium containing spherical scatterers. With an accurate spectral method, we compute the transmitted Stokes parameters through media containing different sized scatterers and different indices of refraction. Our numerical results show that the circular depolarization length exhibits a strong dependence on the relative index of refraction, while the linear depolarization length does not.
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- A D Kim
- Department of Mathematics, Stanford University, California 94305-2125, USA.
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Moscoso M, Keller JB, Papanicolaou G. Depolarization and blurring of optical images by biological tissue. JOURNAL OF THE OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA. A, OPTICS, IMAGE SCIENCE, AND VISION 2001; 18:948-960. [PMID: 11318346 DOI: 10.1364/josaa.18.000948] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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We present a study of the image blurring and depolarization resulting from the transmission of a narrow beam of light through a continuous random medium. We investigate the dependence of image quality degradation and of depolarization on optical thickness, correlation length of the inhomogeneities, and incident polarization state. This is done numerically with a Monte Carlo method based on a transport equation that takes into account polarization of light. We compare our results with those for transport in media with discrete spherical scatterers. We show that depolarization effects are different in these two models of biological tissue.
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- M Moscoso
- Department of Mathematics, Stanford University, California 94305, USA
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Peng LC, Chou C, Lyu CW, Hsieh JC. Zeeman laser-scanning confocal microscopy in turbid media. OPTICS LETTERS 2001; 26:349-351. [PMID: 18040320 DOI: 10.1364/ol.26.000349] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/25/2023]
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A novel Zeeman laser-scanning confocal microscope (ZLSCM) is proposed. It has the same configuration as the conventional laser-scanning confocal microscope (LSCM) in which a Zeeman laser in conjunction with a Glan-Thompson analyzer is used. In our system, the analyzer with the bandpass filter, which act simultaneously as a polarization gate and a coherence gate, enhance the collection efficiency of the weak-scattering photons and simultaneously suppress the multiple-scattering photons. The improvement in depth resolution of a ZLSCM in a scattering medium compared with that of a conventional LSCM is discussed and demonstrated experimentally.
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Yao G, Wang L. Propagation of polarized light in turbid media: simulated animation sequences. OPTICS EXPRESS 2000; 7:198-203. [PMID: 19407865 DOI: 10.1364/oe.7.000198] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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A time-resolved Monte Carlo technique was used to simulate the propagation of polarized light in turbid media. Calculated quantities include the reflection Mueller matrices, the transmission Mueller matrices, and the degree of polarization (DOP). The effects of the polarization state of the incident light and of the size of scatterers on the propagation of DOP were studied. Results are shown in animation sequences.
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