This report contains the results of approbations of the polarization correlometry method (PCM) – statistical mapping of biological tissues fractal structure (myocardium and brain - “fibrillar optically anisotropic networks” and the wall of the rectum - “island optically anisotropic structures”) and liquids (polycrystalline films of synovial fluid - a superposition of “structured and island networks of biological crystals").
A theoretical basis for the method of polarization-phase mapping of optically thin polycrystalline films of human biological fluids is given. The coordinate distributions of the magnitude of the phase shifts and the polarization-inhomogeneous microscopic images of polycrystalline films of the synovial fluid of the human joint are investigated. In the framework of the statistical (statistical moments of 1st-4th order), correlation (dispersion and kurtosis characterizing autocorrelation functions) and fractal (dispersion, characterizing the logarithmic dependencies of power spectra) approaches, objective criteria for the distribution of local contrast values are established. The possibility of differentiation of weak changes in the optical anisotropy of synovial fluid films in patients with different severity of the pathology of the knee joint has been determined. Comparative studies of the accuracy of this method and the traditional method of polarization mapping.
A multilayered model of the optical anisotropy of the light-scattering layer of biological tissue is considered. The Muller matrix of the depolarizing layer is represented as a superposition of partial matrix operators for linear and circular birefringence-dichroism. For multiple scattering, an algorithm is proposed for the expansion of the Muller matrix in the form of two components. The first is the fully polarized component of the Muller matrix. The second is the completely depolarized component of the Muller matrix. The algorithms for measuring the elements of the fully polarized component of the Muller matrix for distributions of the phase and amplitude anisotropy of the depolarizing biological tissue are found. Maps of the distributions of the completely polarized component of the Muller matrix elements of histological sections of healthy and diabetic rats liver tissue have been studied. Sensitivity, specificity and balanced accuracy of the Muller-matrix reconstruction method of the polycrystalline structure of multiply scattering biological tissues are determined. Within the framework of the statistical analysis of the maps of the elements of the fully polarized component of the Muller matrix, histological sections of the liver tissue, objective criteria for the differentiation of healthy and diabetic rats have been found.
A model of weak phase fluctuations of polycrystalline films of biological fluids is proposed. A correlation approach has been used to describe the polarization manifestations of the linear and circular birefringence of biological planar polycrystalline networks. Algorithms of polarization experimental measurement of the module (orientation map) and phase (phase map) of a set of "two-point" parameters of the Stokes vector are determined. The sets of orientation and phase maps of polycrystalline films of bile and blood are studied experimentally. The diagnostic possibilities of statistical analysis of the module and phase distributions of the "two-point" parameters of the Stokes vector of polarization-inhomogeneous images are considered. The magnitudes and ranges of changes in the set of statistical moments of the 1st and 4th orders that characterize the orientation and phase maps of polycrystalline films of bile and blood are found. The sensitivity, specificity and balanced accuracy of the method of polarization-correlation mapping in the diagnosis of early stage of cholelithiasis, as well as differentiation of the degree of blood losses, were determined.
The paper consists of two parts. The first part presents short theoretical basics of the method of Stokes-correlometry description of optical anisotropy of biological tissues. It was provided experimentally measured coordinate distributions of modulus (MSV) and phase (PhSV) of complex Stokes vector of skeletal muscle tissue. It was defined the values and ranges of changes of statistic moments of the 1st-4th orders, which characterize the distributions of values of MSV and PhSV. The second part presents the data of statistic analysis of the distributions of modulus MSV and PhSV. It was defined the objective criteria of differentiation of samples with urinary incontinence.
The paper consists of two parts. The first part is devoted to the short theoretical basics of the method of differential Mueller-matrix description of properties of partially depolarizing layers. It was provided the experimentally measured maps of differential matrix of the 2nd order of polycrystalline structure of the histological section of rectum wall tissue. It was defined the values of statistical moments of the1st-4th orders, which characterize the distribution of matrix elements. In the second part of the paper it was provided the data of statistic analysis of birefringence and dichroism of the histological sections of connecting component of vagina wall tissue (normal and with prolapse). It were defined the objective criteria of differential diagnostics of pathologies of vagina wall.
The paper consists of two parts. The first part presents short theoretical basics of the method of azimuthally-invariant Mueller-matrix description of optical anisotropy of biological tissues. It was provided experimentally measured coordinate distributions of Mueller-matrix invariants (MMI) of linear and circular birefringences of skeletal muscle tissue. It was defined the values of statistic moments, which characterize the distributions of amplitudes of wavelet coefficients of MMI at different scales of scanning. The second part presents the data of statistic analysis of the distributions of amplitude of wavelet coefficients of the distributions of linear birefringence of myocardium tissue died after the infarction and ischemic heart disease. It was defined the objective criteria of differentiation of the cause of death.
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