Laser Polarimetry of Biological Tissues and Fluids - Vol 8 | 3D Methods of Mueller-Matrix Polarimetry of Optically Anisotropic Biological Layers

Currently, methods and tools for polarimetric diagnostics of the optically anisotropic structure of diffuse biological tissues are actively developing in biomedical optics, which includes a number of original directions: the study of scattering matrices; Mueller-matrix polarimetry; polar decomposition of Mueller matrices; two-dimensional Muller-matrix mapping in the framework of various model approximations. At the same time, the morphological, and accordingly the polycrystalline structure of samples of real biological tissues has a complex spatial-orientational organization. Therefore, the development of the new Mueller-matrix polarimetric diagnostics of polycrystalline networks of diffuse biological tissues in 3D format is relevant. Such a possibility can be provided by the synthesis of methods of Stokes polarimetry and digital holographic reproduction of the distributions of complex amplitudes of the object field of phase-inhomogeneous layers.