Azimuthally invariant laser polarimetry of polycrystalline smears of biological liquids

The model based on Mueller-matrix description of mechanisms providing optical anisotropy typical for polycrystalline smears of liquor (including optical activity, birefringence as well as linear and circular dichroism) has been suggested. Within the statistical analysis of such distributions, the objective criteria of differentiation of smears of liquor taken from dead patient at different moments after his death have been determined. From the viewpoint of probative medicine, the operational characteristics (sensitivity, specificity and accuracy) of the method of Mueller-matrix reconstruction of optical anisotropy parameters have been found and the efficiency of this method in another task – diagnostics of diseases of internal organs of rats – has been demonstrated

System of multifunctional Jones matrix tomography of phase anisotropy in diagnostics of endometriosis

The paper presents the results of Jones-matrix mapping of uterine wall histological sections with second-degree and third-degree endometriosis. The technique of experimental measurement of coordinate distributions of the modulus and phase values of Jones matrix elements is suggested. Within the statistical and cross-correlation approaches the modulus and phase maps of Jones matrix images of optically thin biological layers of polycrystalline films of plasma and cerebrospinal fluid are analyzed. A set of objective parameters (statistical and generalized correlation moments), which are the most sensitive to changes in the phase of anisotropy, associated with the features of polycrystalline structure of uterine wall histological sections with second-degree and third-degree endometriosis are determined

Investigation of singularities inherent to Mueller matrix images of biological crystals: diagnostics of their birefringent structure

In this work, we have theoretically grounded conceptions of singularities observed in coordinate distributions of Mueller matrix elements for a network of human tissue biological crystals. Found is interrelation between polarization singularities of laser images inherent to these biological crystals and characteristic values of above matrix elements. We have determined criteria for statistical diagnostics of pathological changes in the birefringent structure of biological crystal network by using myometrium tissue as an example

Wavelet analysis for Mueller matrix images of biological crystal networks

Theoretically grounded in this work is the efficiency of using the statistical and fractal analyses for distributions of wavelet coefficients for Mueller-matrix images of biological crystal networks inherent to human tissues. The authors found interrelations between statistical moments and power spectra for distributions of wavelet coefficients as well as orientation-phase changes in networks of biological crystals. Also determined are criteria for statistical and fractal diagnostics of changes in the birefringent structure of biological crystal network, which corresponds to pathological changes in tissues

Diffuse tomography of optical anisotropy of tumors and necrotic conditions of biological tissues

An optical-physical system for extracting information about the fluctuations in the optical anisotropy of strongly scattering biological tissues is considered. A model is proposed for the formation of a depolarized background by birefringent and dichroic structures. An explicit form and symmetry of the completely depolarized component of the Mueller matrix is determined, a second-order differential matrix. An algorithm for the analytic determination of the distributions of elements of a second-order differential matrix is found. Interrelations between the magnitude of the elements of the second-order differential matrix and the fluctuations of the linear and circular birefringence-dichroism are obtained. The technique of diffuse tomography of an optically anisotropic component of strongly scattering biological tissues has been developed and experimentally tested. Maps of the distributions of the elements of the completely depolarized component of the Mueller matrix of the histological sections of the internal organs of the healthy and of the diabetic rats . The sensitivity, specificity and balanced accuracy of the method of diffuse tomography of the polycrystalline structure of tumors of the uterine wall and the degree of hemorrhage of the liver are determined

System 3D Jones-matrix polarimetry of polycrystalline films of biological fluids

A model of multilayer polycrystalline structure of films of biological fluids of human organs has been developed. Each layer is associated with a partial Jones-matrix operator of phase and amplitude anisotropy. A new principle for detecting polarization-inhomogeneous object fields using a coherent laser wave is proposed. Algorithms for digital holographic reconstruction of field distributions of complex amplitudes in the plane of a polycrystalline film of a biological fluid are found. A new optical technique is proposed: direct measurement of 3D distributions of elements of the Jones matrix. Maps of layer-by-layer distributions of elements of the Jones matrix of polycrystalline urine films are tudied. Sensitivity, specificity and balanced accuracy of the 3D Jones-matrix tomography method of the polycrystalline structure of urine films of healthy donors and patients with lbuminuria were determined. Within the framework of the statistical analysis of stratified maps of elements of the Jones matrix of polycrystalline urine films, objective criteria for the early diagnosis of the onset and course of albuminuria were found

Jones matrix polarization-correlation mapping of biological crystals networks

It has been proposed the optical model of Jones-matrix description of mechanisms of optical anisotropy of polycrystalline films of human bile, namely optical activity and birefringence. The algorithm of reconstruction of distributions of parameters - optical rotation angles and phase shifts of the indicated anisotropy types has been elaborated. The objective criteria of differentiation of bile films taken from healthy donors and patients with cholelithiasis by means of statistic analysis of such distributions have been determined. The operational characteristics (sensitivity, specificity and accuracy) of Jones-matrix reconstruction method of optical anisotropy parameters were defined

Jones matrix polarization-correlation mapping of biological crystals networks

The structure of biological layers can be considered as structurally inhomogeneous one. Laser polarimetry was formed recently as a new separate approach within matrix optics. This research is aimed on generalization of optical anisotropy of optically thin layers of bile films and the development of the method of Jones-matrix reconstruction of anisotropy parameters of polycrystalline networks in the task of cholelithiasis early diagnostics

Differential Mueller matrix imaging of partially depolarizing optically anisotropic biological tissues

Since recently, a number of innovative polarization-based optical imaging modalities have been introduced and extensively used in various biomedical applications, with an ultimate aim to attain the practical tool for the optical biopsy and functional characterization of biological tissues. The techniques utilize polarization properties of light and Mueller matrix mapping of microscopic imagesof histological sectionsof biological tissues or polycrystalline films ofbiologicalfluids. The main drawback of currently developed laser polarimetry approaches and Mueller matrix mapping techniques is poor reproducibility of experi-mental data. This is due to azimuthal dependence of polarization and ellipticity values of most matrix elements to sample orientation in respect to incidence light polarization. Current study aims to generalize the methods of laser polarimetry for diagnosis of partially depolarizing optically anisotropic biological tissues. A method of differential Mueller matrix mapping for reconstruction of linear and circular birefringence and dichroism parameter distributions of partially depolarizing layers of biological tissues of different morphological structure is introduced and practically implemented. The coordinate distributions of the value of the first-order differential matrix elements of histological sections of brain tissue with spatially structured, optically anisotropic fibrillar network, as well as of parenchymatous tissue of the rectum wall with an “islet” polycrystalline structure are determined. Within the statistical analysis of polarization reproduced distributions of the averaged parameters of phase and amplitude anisotropy, the significant sensitivity of the statistical moments of the third and fourth orders to changes in the polycrystalline structure of partially depolarizing layers of biological tissue is observed. The differentiation of female reproductive sphere connective tissue is realized with excellent accuracy. The differential Mueller matrix mapping method for reconstruction of distributions of linear and circular birefringence and dichroism parameters of partially depolarizing layers of biological tissues of different morphological structures is proposed and substantiated. Differential diagnostics of changes in the phase (good balanced accuracy) and amplitude (excellent balanced accuracy) of the anisotropy of the partially depolarizing layers of the vagina wall tissue with prolapse of the genital sisrealized. The maximum diagnostic efficiency of the first-order differential matrix method was demonstrated in comparison with the traditional methods of polarization and Mueller matrix mapping of histological sections of light-scattering biological tissues

Jones matrix mapping of polycrystalline networks of layers of main types of amino acids

The given data on the optical arrangement, in which the coordinate distributions of the real and imaginary component of the elements of the Jones matrix of optically thin polycrystalline layers are determined. Algorithms are presented and an experimental method for measuring the real and imaginary component of Jones-matrix images is analyzed. The experimental results of the study of statistical, correlation, and fractal parameters, which characterize the real component of the Jones-matrix image of polycrystalline networks of flat layers of the main types of human amino acids, are presented