@inproceedings{f92c40a839d64ebfad71701e88e490d5,
title = "Complete Mueller polarimetry: Do we need it for biological tissues diagnosis?",
abstract = "The advent of polarization-sensitive cameras opens the avenue for real-time in-vivo polarimetric diagnostic imaging of biological tissues in clinical settings, but this approach allows measuring only the first three rows of 4×4 Mueller matrix. In order to extract diagnostically relevant images of tissue linear retardance, azimuth of the optical axis and depolarization from the partial Mueller matrix we have formulated a theoretical framework for the decomposition of 3×4 Mueller matrices and tested its validity on both simulated data for optical phantoms and experimental data collected from thick sections of formalin-fixed human brain measured in reflection. The polarimetric maps calculated with our algorithm and Lu-Chipman polar decomposition of the complete Mueller matrices demonstrate compelling correlation and preserve diagnostic image contrast.",
keywords = "Partial Mueller polarimetry, birefringence, depolarization, polarimetric imaging of tissue",
author = "Tatiana Novikova and Ramella-Roman, \{Jessica C.\} and Leonard Felger and Romain Gros and Ekkehard Hewer and Theoni Maragkou and Richard McKinley and Stefano Moriconi and Michael Murek and Angelo Pierangelo and Omar Rodr{\'i}guez-N{\'u}{\~n}ez and Irena Zubak and Philippe Schucht",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2023 SPIE.; Polarization Science and Remote Sensing XI 2023 ; Conference date: 21-08-2023 Through 22-08-2023",
year = "2023",
month = jan,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1117/12.2689662",
language = "English",
series = "Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering",
publisher = "SPIE",
editor = "Kupinski, \{Meredith K.\} and Shaw, \{Joseph A.\} and Frans Snik",
booktitle = "Polarization Science and Remote Sensing XI",
}