Mueller matrix decomposition for extraction of individual polarization parameters from complex turbid media exhibiting multiple scattering, optical activity, and linear birefringence

Journal of Biomedical Optics

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2008, Pages

  Ghosh, Nirmalya ^a   Wood, Michael F G ^a   Vitkin, I Alex ^a  

^a PRINCESS MARGARET HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

light propagation; Monte Carlo simulations; Mueller matrix; multiple scattering; optical polarization; polar decomposition; turbid polarimetry

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL TISSUES; BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS; CONTROLLED POLARIZATION; DETECTION GEOMETRY; DIATTENUATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; LINEAR BIREFRINGENCE; MONITORING CHANGE; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; MUELLER MATRIX; MULTIPLE SCATTERING EFFECT; OPTICAL ACTIVITY; PHOTOMEDICINE; POLAR DECOMPOSITIONS; POLARIZATION EFFECT; POLARIZATION PARAMETERS; PROPAGATION PATHS; REASONABLE ACCURACY; RETARDANCE; SCATTERED PHOTONS; SCATTERING MEDIUM; TISSUE ABNORMALITIES; TISSUE BIREFRINGENCE; TURBID MEDIA; TURBID POLARIMETRY;

BIREFRINGENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELLIPSOMETRY; GEOMETRY; GLUCOSE; LIGHT POLARIZATION; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; MULTIPLE SCATTERING; OPTICAL MATERIALS; OPTICAL ROTATION; POLARIMETERS; POLARIZATION; POLYSTYRENES; ROTATION; SUGAR (SUCROSE); TISSUE; TRANSFER MATRIX METHOD; TURBIDITY;

FORWARD SCATTERING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIREFRINGENCE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; PHOTOMETRY; POLARIZATION MICROSCOPY; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; BIREFRINGENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIGHT; LINEAR MODELS; MICROSCOPY, POLARIZATION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEPHELOMETRY AND TURBIDIMETRY; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 58149401285     PISSN: 10833668     EISSN: 15602281     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.2960934     Document Type: Article

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