TY - JOUR
T1 - Quantitative assessment of submicron scale anisotropy in tissue multifractality by scattering Mueller matrix in the framework of Born approximation
AU - Das, Nandan Kumar
AU - Dey, Rajib
AU - Chakraborty, Semanti
AU - Panigrahi, Prasanta K.
AU - Meglinski, Igor
AU - Ghosh, Nirmalya
PY - 2018/4/15
Y1 - 2018/4/15
N2 - A number of tissue-like disordered media exhibit local anisotropy of scattering in the scaling behavior. Scaling behavior contains wealth of fractal or multifractal properties. We demonstrate that the spatial dielectric fluctuations in a sample of biological tissue exhibit multifractal anisotropy. Multifractal anisotropy encoded in the wavelength variation of the light scattering Mueller matrix and manifesting as an intriguing spectral diattenuation effect. We developed an inverse method for the quantitative assessment of the multifractal anisotropy. The method is based on the processing of relevant Mueller matrix elements in Fourier domain by using Born approximation, followed by the multifractal analysis. The approach promises for probing subtle micro-structural changes in biological tissues associated with the cancer and precancer, as well as for non-destructive characterization of a wide range of scattering materials.
AB - A number of tissue-like disordered media exhibit local anisotropy of scattering in the scaling behavior. Scaling behavior contains wealth of fractal or multifractal properties. We demonstrate that the spatial dielectric fluctuations in a sample of biological tissue exhibit multifractal anisotropy. Multifractal anisotropy encoded in the wavelength variation of the light scattering Mueller matrix and manifesting as an intriguing spectral diattenuation effect. We developed an inverse method for the quantitative assessment of the multifractal anisotropy. The method is based on the processing of relevant Mueller matrix elements in Fourier domain by using Born approximation, followed by the multifractal analysis. The approach promises for probing subtle micro-structural changes in biological tissues associated with the cancer and precancer, as well as for non-destructive characterization of a wide range of scattering materials.
KW - Anisotropy of scattering
KW - Biological tissues
KW - Born approximation
KW - Mueller matrix
KW - Polarization
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UR - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0030401817311008?via%3Dihub
U2 - 10.1016/j.optcom.2017.11.082
DO - 10.1016/j.optcom.2017.11.082
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85039750593
SN - 0030-4018
VL - 413
SP - 172
EP - 178
JO - Optics Communications
JF - Optics Communications
ER -