Wang, Xueding and Wang, Lihong V. and Sun, Chia-Wei and Yang, Chih-Chung (2003) Polarized light propagation through scattering media: time-resolved Monte Carlo simulations and experiments. Journal of Biomedical Optics, 8 (4). pp. 608-617. ISSN 1083-3668. doi:10.1117/1.1606462. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20170131-105542212
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Abstract
A study of polarized light transmitted through randomly scattering media of a polystyrene-microsphere solution is described. Temporal profiles of the Stokes vectors and the degree of polarization are measured experimentally and calculated theoretically based on a Monte Carlo technique. The experimental results match the theoretical results well, which demonstrates that the time-resolved Monte Carlo technique is a powerful tool that can contribute to the understanding of polarization propagation in biological tissue. Analysis based on the Stokes-Mueller formalism and the Mie theory shows that the first scattering event determines the major spatial patterns of the transmitted Stokes vectors. When an area detected at the output surface of a turbid medium is circularly symmetrical about the incident beam, the temporal profile of the transmitted light is independent of the incident polarization state. A linear relationship between the average order of the scatters and the light propagation time can be used to explain the exponential decay of the degree of polarization of transmitted light.
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Additional Information: | © 2003 Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers. Paper 02070 received Oct. 14, 2002; revised manuscript received Apr. 23, 2003; accepted for publication May 1, 2003. This project is sponsored in part by National Institutes of Health grants R01 CA71980 and R21 RR15368, National Science Foundation grant BES9734491, and Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board grant 000512-0063-2001. | ||||||||||
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Subject Keywords: | polarized light; scattering; ultrafast optics; Monte Carlo; light propagation; time-resolved | ||||||||||
Issue or Number: | 4 | ||||||||||
DOI: | 10.1117/1.1606462 | ||||||||||
Record Number: | CaltechAUTHORS:20170131-105542212 | ||||||||||
Persistent URL: | https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20170131-105542212 | ||||||||||
Official Citation: | Wang X, Wang LV, Sun C, Yang C; Polarized light propagation through scattering media: time-resolved monte carlo simulations and experiments. J. Biomed. Opt. 0001;8(4):608-617 | ||||||||||
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Deposited By: | Tony Diaz | ||||||||||
Deposited On: | 31 Jan 2017 19:56 | ||||||||||
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