Study on retardance due to well-ordered birefringent cylinders in anisotropic scattering media

Yihong Guo; Celong Liu; Nan Zeng; Honghui He; E. Du; Yonghong He; Hui Ma

doi:10.1117/1.JBO.19.6.065001

5 June 2014 Study on retardance due to well-ordered birefringent cylinders in anisotropic scattering media

Yihong Guo, Celong Liu, Nan Zeng, Honghui He, E. Du, Yonghong He, Hui Ma

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Journal of Biomedical Optics, Vol. 19, Issue 6, 065001 (June 2014). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JBO.19.6.065001

Abstract

We report an anisotropic tissue model containing well-ordered birefringent cylinders. Using simulations and experiments, we examined the different polarization features for nonbirefringent and birefringent cylinders and analyzed the influence of the birefringent cylinders on the retardance obtained from Mueller matrix polar decomposition. For the well-ordered birefringent cylinders, retardance increases linearly with the intrinsic birefringence and the scattering coefficient. Furthermore, the cylinders with a larger diameter generate more retardance. Compared with the cylinder-birefringence model, in which birefringent medium exists between the scatterers, the intrinsic birefringence on the cylinders usually contributes much less to the total retardance.

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Yihong Guo, Celong Liu, Nan Zeng, Honghui He, E. Du, Yonghong He, and Hui Ma "Study on retardance due to well-ordered birefringent cylinders in anisotropic scattering media," Journal of Biomedical Optics 19(6), 065001 (5 June 2014). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JBO.19.6.065001

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