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 polarimetric imaging for surgical and diagnostic applications: a review

J Qi, DS Elson - Journal of biophotonics, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Polarization is a fundamental property of light and a powerful sensing tool that has been
applied to many areas. A Mueller matrix is a complete mathematical description of the …

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 …

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 …

Fast Mueller matrix microscope based on dual DoFP polarimeters

T Huang, R Meng, J Qi, Y Liu, X Wang, Y Chen… - Optics letters, 2021 - opg.optica.org
In this Letter, we report a dual division of focal plane (DoFP) polarimeters-based full Mueller
matrix microscope (DoFPs-MMM) for fast polarization imaging. Both acquisition speed and …

Mueller matrix spectroscopic ellipsometry

JN Hilfiker, N Hong, S Schoeche - Advanced Optical Technologies, 2022 - degruyter.com
The Mueller matrix is a mathematical description of how light is altered by an optical element
or a sample under study. It describes both intensity (irradiance) and polarization changes …

Polarization image fusion with self-learned fusion strategy

J Zhang, J Shao, J Chen, D Yang, B Liang - Pattern Recognition, 2021 - Elsevier
Polarization image fusion aims to integrate intensity and degree of linear polarization
images into one with more details, which is beneficial to improve the ability of targets …

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 …

Comparative study of the imaging contrasts of Mueller matrix derived parameters between transmission and backscattering polarimetry

T Liu, T Sun, H He, S Liu, Y Dong, J Wu… - Biomedical Optics …, 2018 - opg.optica.org
Mueller matrix polarimetry is a potentially powerful tool for biomedical diagnosis. Recently,
the transmission Mueller matrix microscope and backscattering Mueller matrix endoscope …