Polarization Optics in Biomedical Applications

Dear Colleagues,

The use of polarization of light in biomedical applications is an emerging research area, with significant progress achieved in recent years that is attracting high interest, both in academia and industry. The development and clinical implementation of polarization-based optical imaging and diagnostic modalities, as well as translation of technologies developed in neighbour fields, e.g., ellipsometry, astrophysics, photo-elastography, optical coherence tomography and others, to the needs of biomedicine provide more opportunities to healthcare professionals and significantly extend the diagnostic toolkit.

This Special Issue invites manuscripts that introduce recent advances and developments in the field of optical polarization for biomedical applications, including fundamental studies of polarized light in life sciences, clinical and pre-clinical studies, as well as the results of translational research for healthcare needs. Research papers, review articles, short communications and clinical case studies are very welcome and highly appreciated.

All manuscripts will be internationally peer reviewed. We solicit papers covering various topics of interest that include, but are not limited to, the following:

PROPERTIES OF TISSUES

• Tissue birefringence, diattenuation and depolarization, Poincare sphere
• Polarimetric phantoms of biological tissues
• Interaction of polarized light with cells/tissue measurements and modeling

NOVEL POLARIMETRIC TECHNIQUES AND METHODS

• Mueller–Stokes polarimetry
• Polarized light microscopy
• Polarized light endoscopy
• Polarization-based fluorescence imaging
• Circular dichroism
• Shaped light with Orbital Angular Momentum
• Higher-order Poincare sphere, generalized Mueller matrix formalism
• Interaction of spin and orbital angular momentum of light
• Topological states and scattering
• Elastography BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS OF POLARIZED LIGHT
• Reproductive medicine
• Ophthalmology
• Neurosurgery
• Gastroenterology
• Cardiology
• Dermatology
• Cancer screening

Prof. Dr. Tatiana Novikova
Prof. Dr. Igor Meglinski
Guest Editors

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