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Semiconductor Physics, Quantum Electronics & Optoelectronics. 2009. V. 12, N 4. P. 379-390.
Investigation of singularities inherent
to Mueller matrix images of biological crystals:
diagnostics of their birefringent structure
Chernivtsi National University, Optics and Spectroscopy Dept., Chernivtsi 58000, Ukraine
Abstract. In this work, we have theoretically grounded conceptions of singularities
observed in coordinate distributions of Mueller matrix elements for a network of human
tissue biological crystals. Found is interrelation between polarization singularities of
laser images inherent to these biological crystals and characteristic values of above
matrix elements. We have determined criteria for statistical diagnostics of pathological
changes in the birefringent structure of biological crystal network by using myometrium
tissue as an example.
Keywords: polarization, Mueller matrix, singularity, biological crystal, birefringence,
statistical moment.
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