Investigation of formation and interrelations of polarization singular structure and Mueller-matrix images of biological tissues and diagnostics of their cancer changes

J Biomed Opt. 2011 Jun;16(6):066006. doi: 10.1117/1.3585689.

Abstract

We investigate the processes of laser radiation transformation by biological crystal networks using the singular optics techniques. The obtained results show a distinct correlation between the points of "characteristic" values of coordinate distributions of Mueller matrix (M(ik) = 0, ± 1) elements and polarization singularities (L- and C-points) in laser images of biological crystal networks with the following possibility of Mueller-matrix selection of polarization singularity. The technique of Mueller-matrix singular diagnostics of pathological changes in a woman's reproductive sphere tissue (myometrium) is proposed.

MeSH terms

  • Algorithms
  • Female
  • Histocytochemistry
  • Humans
  • Models, Biological*
  • Myometrium / pathology
  • Neoplasms / diagnosis
  • Neoplasms / pathology*
  • Precancerous Conditions / diagnosis
  • Precancerous Conditions / pathology*
  • Tomography, Optical Coherence / methods*