ArticleScientific reports2017
Flexible polarimetric probe for 3 × 3 Mueller matrix measurements of biological tissue.
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- Ultra-wide-field imaging Mueller matrix spectroscopic ellipsometry for semiconductor metrology.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Mechanical stability of polarization signatures in biological tissue characterization.Biomedical optics express · 2024Article
- Surgical polarimetric endoscopy for the detection of laryngeal cancer.Nature biomedical engineering · 2023Article
- A polarization image enhancement method for glioma.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2023Article
- Dual division of focal plane polarimeters-based collinear reflection Mueller matrix fast imaging microscope.Journal of biomedical optics · 2022Article
- Differentiation of Human GBM From Non-GBM Brain Tissue With Polarization Imaging Technique.Frontiers in oncology · 2022Article
- Effect of the Samples' Surface With Complex Microscopic Geometry on 3 × 3 Mueller Matrix Measurement of Tissue Bulks.Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2022Article
- Design of an endomicroscope including a resonant fiber-based microprobe dedicated to endoscopic polarimetric imaging for medical diagnosis.Biomedical optics express · 2020Article
- In-situ monitoring of an organic sample with electric field determination during cold plasma jet exposure.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- Eigenvalue calibration method for 3 × 3 Mueller polarimeters.Optics letters · 2019Article
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5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
Polarimetry is a noninvasive method that uses polarised light to assess biophysical characteristics of tissues. A series of incident polarisation states illuminates a biological sample, and analysis of sample-altered polarisation states enables polarimetric tissue assessment. The resultant information can, for example, help quantitatively differentiate healthy from pathologic tissue. However, most bio-polarimetric assessments are performed using free-space optics with bulky optical components. Extension to flexible fibre-based systems is clinically desirable, but is challenging due to polarisation-altering properties of optical fibres. Here, we propose a flexible fibre-based polarimetric solution, and describe its design, fabrication, calibration, and initial feasibility demonstration in ex vivo tissue. The design is based on a flexible fibre bundle of six multimode optical fibres, each terminated with a distal polariser that ensures pre-determined output polarisation states. The resultant probe enables linear 3 × 3 Mueller matrix characterization of distal tissue. Potential in vivo Mueller matrix polarimetric tissue examinations in various directly-inaccessible body cavities are envisioned.
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