Abstract
The Stokes-polarimetric method of polarization information selection which is effective in phase-inhomogeneous layer (PIL) diagnostics and provides the 2-order level of increasing the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) in their images has been presented. The mechanisms of forming the probability distribution of azimuths and ellipticities of the object field polarization of biological tissue as the set of optically uniaxial structures with crystalline and architectonic organization levels have been distinguished. The two-dimensional polarization tomography, which is effective for visualization and SNR increasing of the image of tissue architectonics, and the set of orientation tomograms has been elaborated. The possibilities of polarization-correlation and wavelet analyses of architectonics images and orientation tomograms of tissues have been studied. The interrelations between statistic parameters, correlation functions and coefficients of wavelet-transformation of polarization filtered images of architectonics and its orientation-phase structure in physiologically normal and pathologically changed states have been determined.
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Ushenko, A.G., Pishak, V.P. (2004). Laser Polarimetry of Biological Tissues: Principles and Applications. In: Tuchin, V.V. (eds) Handbook of Coherent Domain Optical Methods. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-29989-0_3
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