Polarimetry of birefringent biological tissues with arbitrary fibril orientation and variable incidence angle
Optics Letters, Vol. 35, Issue 8, pp. 1163-1165 (2010)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OL.35.001163
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Abstract
Polarimetric optical techniques such as polarization microscopy or polarization-sensitive optical coherence tomography normally assume that light is perpendicular to the sample surface and that fibrils of a birefringent biological tissue are arranged in a plane parallel to this surface. The approaches that describe quantitatively polarimetric data from tissues with nonparallel fibril orientation and/or off-axis incidence usually lack a rigorous theoretical analysis. We present a polarimetric model with arbitrary fibril orientation and/or variable incidence angle by means of the extended Jones matrix theory, the polar decomposition, and Poincaré equivalence theorem. The model, suitable for diagnosis or tissue structure analysis, is applied to articular cartilage.
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OCIS Codes
(170.3880) Medical optics and biotechnology : Medical and biological imaging
(260.1440) Physical optics : Birefringence
(260.5430) Physical optics : Polarization
(170.6935) Medical optics and biotechnology : Tissue characterization
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Physical Optics
History
Original Manuscript: December 3, 2009
Revised Manuscript: February 11, 2010
Manuscript Accepted: February 26, 2010
Published: April 12, 2010
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Vol. 5, Iss. 9 Virtual Journal for Biomedical Optics
Citation
Félix Fanjul-Vélez and José Luis Arce-Diego, "Polarimetry of birefringent biological tissues with arbitrary fibril orientation and variable incidence angle," Opt. Lett. 35, 1163-1165 (2010)
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/ol/abstract.cfm?URI=ol-35-8-1163
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