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Polarization Optics in Biomedical Applications

A special issue of Photonics (ISSN 2304-6732).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 January 2024) | Viewed by 7144

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Tatiana Novikova

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1. LPICM, CNRS, Ecole Polytechnique, IP Paris, Palaiseau, France
2. Department of Biomedical Engineering, Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA
Interests: optical polarization; Mueller polarimetry; biophotonics; optical metrology; computational optics
Prof. Dr. Igor Meglinski

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School of Engineering and Applied Science, Aston University, Birmingham B4 7ET, UK
Interests: biophysics; biomedical engineering; polarization; orbital angular momentum; laser speckles
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The use of polarization of light in biomedical applications is an emerging research area, with significant progress achieved in recent years that is attracting high interest, both in academia and industry. The development and clinical implementation of polarization-based optical imaging and diagnostic modalities, as well as translation of technologies developed in neighbour fields, e.g., ellipsometry, astrophysics, photo-elastography, optical coherence tomography and others, to the needs of biomedicine provide more opportunities to healthcare professionals and significantly extend the diagnostic toolkit.

This Special Issue invites manuscripts that introduce recent advances and developments in the field of optical polarization for biomedical applications, including fundamental studies of polarized light in life sciences, clinical and pre-clinical studies, as well as the results of translational research for healthcare needs. Research papers, review articles, short communications and clinical case studies are very welcome and highly appreciated.

All manuscripts will be internationally peer reviewed. We solicit papers covering various topics of interest that include, but are not limited to, the following:

PROPERTIES OF TISSUES

  • Tissue birefringence, diattenuation and depolarization, Poincare sphere
  • Polarimetric phantoms of biological tissues
  • Interaction of polarized light with cells/tissue measurements and modeling

NOVEL POLARIMETRIC TECHNIQUES AND METHODS

  • Mueller–Stokes polarimetry
  • Polarized light microscopy
  • Polarized light endoscopy
  • Polarization-based fluorescence imaging
  • Circular dichroism
  • Shaped light with Orbital Angular Momentum
  • Higher-order Poincare sphere, generalized Mueller matrix formalism
  • Interaction of spin and orbital angular momentum of light
  • Topological states and scattering
  • Elastography BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS OF POLARIZED LIGHT
  • Reproductive medicine
  • Ophthalmology
  • Neurosurgery
  • Gastroenterology
  • Cardiology
  • Dermatology
  • Cancer screening

Prof. Dr. Tatiana Novikova
Prof. Dr. Igor Meglinski
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • optical polarization
  • coherence control
  • orbital angular momentum
  • biomedical imaging
  • polarimetric properties of tissue
  • polarimetric instrumentation
  • polarized Monte Carlo modeling

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Mueller-Polarimetry of Barley Leaves II: Mueller Matrix Decompositions
by Sergey Savenkov, Yevgen Oberemok, Ivan Kolomiets, Ranjan Muttiah and Roman Kurylenko
Photonics 2024, 11(1), 76; https://doi.org/10.3390/photonics11010076 - 13 Jan 2024
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This paper highlights the application of decomposition methods in Mueller polarimetry for the discrimination of three groups of barley leaf samples from Hordeum vulgare: Chlorina mutant, Chlorina etiolated mutant and Cesaer varieties in the visible wavelength at λ = 632.8 nm. To [...] Read more.
This paper highlights the application of decomposition methods in Mueller polarimetry for the discrimination of three groups of barley leaf samples from Hordeum vulgare: Chlorina mutant, Chlorina etiolated mutant and Cesaer varieties in the visible wavelength at λ = 632.8 nm. To obtain the anisotropic and depolarizing properties of the samples under study, the additive and multiplicative decompositions of experimental Mueller matrices were used. We show how a rich set of anisotropy and depolarization parameters obtained from decompositions can be used as effective observables for the discrimination between different varieties of the same plant species. Full article
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Mueller-Polarimetry of Barley Leaves I: Depolarization Metrics
by Sergey Savenkov, Yevgen Oberemok, Ivan Kolomiets and Ranjan Muttiah
Photonics 2023, 10(12), 1361; https://doi.org/10.3390/photonics10121361 - 9 Dec 2023
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In this paper, Mueller polarimetry is applied to study the three groups of common barley leaf samples (Hordeum vulgare) in the visible spectrum (λ = 632.8 nm): Chlorina mutant, Chlorina etiolated mutant and Cesaer varieties. These samples differed in internal leaf [...] Read more.
In this paper, Mueller polarimetry is applied to study the three groups of common barley leaf samples (Hordeum vulgare) in the visible spectrum (λ = 632.8 nm): Chlorina mutant, Chlorina etiolated mutant and Cesaer varieties. These samples differed in internal leaf structure from genetic mutation or by illumination during growth. Our main concern is to discriminate and characterize these three groups of leaf samples by depolarization metrics: degree of polarization (DoP), average degree of polarization (Average DoP), depolarization index (DI(M)), and Q(M) and R(M) metrics. The results obtained show that all depolarization metrics are sensitive to the sample’s polarization properties. The most effective observable is the Q(M) metric in both forward and backward scattering. The DoP metric showed presence of depolarization anisotropy, which is significantly different for forward and backward scattering for all three groups of samples. Dichroism is observed for both forward and backward scattering, with lower dichroism in forward scattering. Full article
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Assessment of the Impact of Nanowarming on Microstructure of Cryopreserved Fibroblast-Containing 3D Tissue Models Using Mueller Polarimetry
by Deyan Ivanov, Anika Hoeppel, Tobias Weigel, Razvigor Ossikovski, Sofia Dembski and Tatiana Novikova
Photonics 2023, 10(10), 1129; https://doi.org/10.3390/photonics10101129 - 9 Oct 2023
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We studied the impact of two different thawing mechanisms on the microstructure of defrosted cryopreserved 3D tissue models using transmission Mueller microscopy and a statistical analysis of polarimetric images of thin histological sections of defrosted tissue models. The cryopreserved 3D tissue models were [...] Read more.
We studied the impact of two different thawing mechanisms on the microstructure of defrosted cryopreserved 3D tissue models using transmission Mueller microscopy and a statistical analysis of polarimetric images of thin histological sections of defrosted tissue models. The cryopreserved 3D tissue models were thawed by using either a 37 °C water bath or radio-frequency inductive heating with the magnetic nanoparticles embedded into the 3D tissue model during the preparation process. Polarimetric measurements were conducted at 700 nm and the acquired Mueller matrices of the samples were post-processed using the differential decomposition and the statistical analysis of the maps of the azimuth of the optic axis. Our results indicate the sensitivity of polarimetry to the changes in thawed tissue morphology compared to that of reference non-frozen tissue. Thus, Mueller microscopy can be used as a fast complementary technique to the currently accepted gold standard methods for the assessment of the cryopreserved tissue microstructure after thawing. Full article
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Full-Vectorial Light Propagation Simulation of Optimized Beams in Scattering Media
by Felix Ott, Niklas Fritzsche and Alwin Kienle
Photonics 2023, 10(10), 1068; https://doi.org/10.3390/photonics10101068 - 22 Sep 2023
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Volumetric scattering prevents imaging modalities in biomedical optics from imaging deep inside tissue. The optimization of the incident wavefront has the potential to improve these imaging modalities. To investigate the optimization and light propagation of such beams inside scattering media rigorously, full-vectorial simulations [...] Read more.
Volumetric scattering prevents imaging modalities in biomedical optics from imaging deep inside tissue. The optimization of the incident wavefront has the potential to improve these imaging modalities. To investigate the optimization and light propagation of such beams inside scattering media rigorously, full-vectorial simulations based on solutions of Maxwell’s equations are necessary. In this publication, we present a versatile two-step beam synthesis method to efficiently simulate the scanning and phase optimization of a focused beam inside a static scattering medium. We present four different approaches to the phase optimization of the energy density and the absolute value of the Poynting vector. We find that these quantities have two regions with different, almost exponential decays over depth for a non-optimized beam. Optimization by conjugating the phase of the projected electric field in various directions at the focus shows an improvement below a certain penetration depth. Seeking global solutions to the optimization problems reveals an even better enhancement in the energy density and the absolute value of the Poynting vector in the focus. For Poynting vector optimization, the differences between the presented optimization approaches are more significant than for the energy density. With the presented method, it is possible to efficiently simulate different imaging methods improved by wavefront shaping to investigate their possible penetration depths. Full article
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Polarimetric Images of Biological Tissues Based on the Arrow Decomposition of Mueller Matrices
by José J. Gil, Ignacio San José, Mónica Canabal-Carbia, Irene Estévez, Emilio González-Arnay, Jordi Luque, Teresa Garnatje, Juan Campos and Angel Lizana
Photonics 2023, 10(6), 669; https://doi.org/10.3390/photonics10060669 - 8 Jun 2023
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Polarimetric techniques are widely used in a vast number of applications such as remote sensing, material characterization, astronomy and biological tissue inspection. In this last scenario, different polarimetric observables have proved their potential for enhancing imaging visualization. In this work we use a [...] Read more.
Polarimetric techniques are widely used in a vast number of applications such as remote sensing, material characterization, astronomy and biological tissue inspection. In this last scenario, different polarimetric observables have proved their potential for enhancing imaging visualization. In this work we use a set of polarimetric observables derived from the arrow decomposition of the Mueller matrix for the first time: enpolarizing, retarding and depolarizing descriptors. In particular, the mean intensity coefficient and the three indices of polarimetric purity, the absolute values and Poincaré orientations of diattenuation, polarizance, entrance retardance and exit retardance vectors are considered. Results show images with enhanced visualization or even revealing invisible structures when compared to standard intensity images. In particular, thanks to these metrics, we improve the visualization of the necrotic areas of a Vitis rupestris leaf. In the case of animal samples, boundaries between different fascicles inside a tendon of an ex vivo chicken sample are revealed, as is the directionality of fiber tracts of the subcortical white matter in an ex vivo cow brain. The experimental results show the potential for biophotonics imaging and how polarimetric techniques could be useful for biomedical and botanical applications. Full article
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