Polarisation optics for biomedical and clinical applications: a review

C He, H He, J Chang, B Chen, H Ma… - Light: Science & …, 2021 - nature.com
Many polarisation techniques have been harnessed for decades in biological and clinical
research, each based upon measurement of the vectorial properties of light or the vectorial …

Mueller matrix polarimetry—an emerging new tool for characterizing the microstructural feature of complex biological specimen

H He, R Liao, N Zeng, P Li, Z Chen… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recently, with the emergence of new light sources, polarization devices, and detectors,
together with a prominent increase in data processing capability, polarization techniques …

A polarization-imaging-based machine learning framework for quantitative pathological diagnosis of cervical precancerous lesions

Y Dong, J Wan, X Wang, JH Xue, J Zou… - … on Medical Imaging, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Polarization images encode high resolution microstructural information even at low
resolution. We propose a framework combining polarization imaging and traditional …

Complex vectorial optics through gradient index lens cascades

C He, J Chang, Q Hu, J Wang, J Antonello, H He… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Graded index (GRIN) lenses are commonly used for compact imaging systems. It is not
widely appreciated that the ion-exchange process that creates the rotationally symmetric …

Polaromics: deriving polarization parameters from a Mueller matrix for quantitative characterization of biomedical specimen

P Li, Y Dong, J Wan, H He, T Aziz… - Journal of Physics D …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
A Mueller matrix is a comprehensive representation of the polarization transformation
properties of a sample, encoding very rich information on the microstructure of the scattering …

Deriving polarimetry feature parameters to characterize microstructural features in histological sections of breast tissues

Y Dong, J Wan, L Si, Y Meng, Y Dong… - IEEE Transactions …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Objective: Mueller matrix polarimetry technique has been regarded as a powerful tool for
probing the microstructural information of tissues. The multiplying of cells and remodeling of …

All-dielectric concentration of electromagnetic fields at the nanoscale: the role of photonic nanojets

J Zhu, LL Goddard - Nanoscale Advances, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
The photonic nanojet (PNJ) is a narrow high-energy beam that was originally found on the
back side of all-dielectric spherical structures. It is a unique type of energy concentration …

Revealing complex optical phenomena through vectorial metrics

C He, J Chang, PS Salter, Y Shen, B Dai… - Advanced …, 2022 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Advances in vectorial polarization-resolved imaging are bringing new capabilities to
applications ranging from fundamental physics through to clinical diagnosis. Imaging …

Distinguishing tissue structures via polarization staining images based on different combinations of Mueller matrix polar decomposition parameters

H Zhai, Y Sun, H He, B Chen, C He, Y Wang… - Optics and Lasers in …, 2022 - Elsevier
Mueller matrix polarimetry is gaining wide attention in the field of biophotonics due to its
great potential in detecting the microstructures and optical properties of tissue samples label …

Real time complete Stokes polarimetric imager based on a linear polarizer array camera for tissue polarimetric imaging

J Qi, C He, DS Elson - Biomedical optics express, 2017 - opg.optica.org
Tissue polarimetric imaging measures Mueller matrices of tissues or Stokes vectors of the
emergent light from tissues (normally using incidence with a fixed polarization state) over a …