ABSTRACT
O.V. Angelsky, A.G. Ushenko, Yu.A. Ushenko Chernivtsi National University, Correlation Optics Department, 2 Kotsyubinskoho Str., Chernivtsi 58012, Ukraine
V.P. Pishak, A.P. Peresunko Bukovinian State Medical University, 2 Teatralnaya Sq., Chernivtsi, 58000, Ukraine
10.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284 10.2 Biological Tissue as the Converter of Parameters of Laser Radiation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288 10.3 Laser Polarimetry of Biological Tissues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291 10.4 Polarization Correlometry of Biological Tissues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303 10.5 The Structure of Polarized Fields of Biological Tissues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308 10.6 Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317
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Optical techniques for investigation of structure of biological tissues (BTs) can be classified into three groups:
• Spectrophotometric techniques [1], based on the analysis of spatial or temporal changes of intensity of a field scattered by BTs;
• Polarization techniques based on the use of the coherency matrix for a complex amplitude [2, 3] and the analysis of the degree of polarization as the factor of correlation of the orthogonal complex components of electromagnetic oscillations at the specified point of a scattered field;
• Correlation techniques based on the analysis of correlations of the parallel polarization components at different points of the object field [4].
