Mueller-matrix reconstruction of parameters of phase and amplitude anisotropy in diagnostics of endometriosis and infertility

Abstract

A new azimuthally stable polarimetric method for processing microscopic images of optically anisotropic structures for different biological layers of histological sections has been proposed. A new model that enables to determine phase anisotropy of biological tissues by using superposition of Mueller matrices of linear birefringence and optical activity has been proposed. The matrix element М₄₄ has been chosen as the main information parameter, which value is independent of rotation angle of both sample and probing beam polarization plane.