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Fabrication and Characterization of Optical Tissue Phantoms Containing Macrostructure
Published on: February 12, 2018
Study on the influence of optical absorption on polarization characterization of tissues
Yunfei Wang1,2, Yu Huang1,3, Nan Zeng1,2
1Tsinghua University, Graduate School at Shenzhen, Guangdong Research Center of Polarization Imaging, China.
Abstract:
Absorption effect is a basic optical phenomenon and an important feature in tissue imaging and characterization. Based on our Monte Carlo simulation on the anisotropic tissue model (sphere-cylinder birefringence model), combined with our experiments of tissue phantoms, we demonstrate the influence of absorption effect on Mueller matrix and particularly on depolarization, linear retardance, and diattenuation parameters. The simulation and experimental results show a good consistency on the suppressed depolarization and scatterering induced retardance, and the enhanced diattenuation caused by the absorption, and also indicate the birefringence induced retardance insensitive to the absorption. Study of the phase function of different incident polarized lights and the distribution of scattering number gives a preliminary explanation about the above results.
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