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Polarimetric imaging of biological tissues based on the indices of polarimetric purity
Van Eeckhout, Albert (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Física)
Lizana Tutusaus, Ángel (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Física)
Garcia-Caurel, Enric (Université Paris Saclay. Laboratoire de Physique des Interfaces et des Couches Minces)
Gil Pérez, José Jorge (Universidad de Zaragoza. Instituto de Ciencias de la Educación. Laboratorio de Polarimetría)
Sansa, Adrià (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Física)
Rodríguez, Carla (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Física)
Estévez, Irene (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Física)
González, Emilio (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. Departamento de Anatomía, Histología y Neurociencia)
Escalera Merino, Juan Carlos (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Física)
Moreno, Ignacio (Universidad Miguel Hernández de Elche. Departamento de Ciencia de Materiales, Óptica y Tecnología Electrónica)
Campos Coloma, Juan (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Física)

Date: 2018
Abstract: We highlight the interest of using the indices of polarimetric purity (IPPs) to the inspection of biological tissues. The IPPs were recently proposed in the literature and they result in a further synthetization of the depolarizing properties of samples. Compared with standard polarimetric images of biological samples, IPP-based images lead to larger image contrast of some biological structures and to a further physical interpretation of the depolarizing mechanisms inherent to the samples. In addition, unlike other methods, their calculation do not require advanced algebraic operations (as is the case of polar decompositions), and they result in 3 indicators of easy implementation. We also propose a pseudo-colored encoding of the IPP information that leads to an improved visualization of samples. This last technique opens the possibility of tailored adjustment of tissues contrast by using customized pseudo-colored images. The potential of the IPP approach is experimentally highlighted along the manuscript by studying 3 different ex-vivo samples. A significant image contrast enhancement is obtained by using the IPP-based methods, compared to standard polarimetric images.
Grants: Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad FIS2015-66328-C3-1-R
Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad FIS2015-66328-C3-3-R
Agència de Gestió d'Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca 2014/SGR-1639
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Language: Anglès
Document: Article ; recerca ; Versió acceptada per publicar
Subject: Biological tissue ; Biomedical ; Depolarization ; Imaging ; Mueller matrix ; Polarimetry
Published in: Journal of biophotonics, Vol. 11, issue 4 (April 2018) , e201700189, ISSN 1864-0648

DOI: 10.1002/jbio.201700189


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