Complete Mueller polarimetry: do we need it for biological tissues diagnosis?

Tatiana Novikova; Jessica C. Ramella-Roman; Leonard Felger; Romain Gros; Ekkehard Hewer; Theoni Maragkou; Richard McKinley; Stefano Moriconi; Michael Murek; Angelo Pierangelo; Omar Rodríguez-Núñez; Irena Zubak; Philippe Schucht

doi:10.1117/12.2689662

3 October 2023 Complete Mueller polarimetry: do we need it for biological tissues diagnosis?

Tatiana Novikova, Jessica C. Ramella-Roman, Leonard Felger, Romain Gros, Ekkehard Hewer, Theoni Maragkou, Richard McKinley, Stefano Moriconi, Michael Murek, Angelo Pierangelo, Omar Rodríguez-Núñez, Irena Zubak, Philippe Schucht

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Proceedings Volume 12690, Polarization Science and Remote Sensing XI; 1269006 (2023) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2689662
Event: SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, 2023, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

The advent of polarization-sensitive cameras opens the avenue for real-time in-vivo polarimetric diagnostic imaging of biological tissues in clinical settings, but this approach allows measuring only the first three rows of 4×4 Mueller matrix. In order to extract diagnostically relevant images of tissue linear retardance, azimuth of the optical axis and depolarization from the partial Mueller matrix we have formulated a theoretical framework for the decomposition of 3×4 Mueller matrices and tested its validity on both simulated data for optical phantoms and experimental data collected from thick sections of formalin-fixed human brain measured in reflection. The polarimetric maps calculated with our algorithm and Lu-Chipman polar decomposition of the complete Mueller matrices demonstrate compelling correlation and preserve diagnostic image contrast.

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Tatiana Novikova, Jessica C. Ramella-Roman, Leonard Felger, Romain Gros, Ekkehard Hewer, Theoni Maragkou, Richard McKinley, Stefano Moriconi, Michael Murek, Angelo Pierangelo, Omar Rodríguez-Núñez, Irena Zubak, and Philippe Schucht "Complete Mueller polarimetry: do we need it for biological tissues diagnosis?", Proc. SPIE 12690, Polarization Science and Remote Sensing XI, 1269006 (3 October 2023); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2689662

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