Measurement of an optical anisotropy of biotissues

Georgy V. Simonenko; Tatyana P. Denisova; Nina A. Lakodina; Valery V. Tuchin

doi:10.1117/12.384167

28 April 2000 Measurement of an optical anisotropy of biotissues

Georgy V. Simonenko, Tatyana P. Denisova, Nina A. Lakodina, Valery V. Tuchin

Proceedings Volume 3915, Coherence Domain Optical Methods in Biomedical Science and Clinical Applications IV; (2000) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.384167
Event: BiOS 2000 The International Symposium on Biomedical Optics, 2000, San Jose, CA, United States

Abstract

The comparison method of color coordinates measurements for estimation of the optical anisotropy of tissue is suggested. The anisotropy of form of fibrous tissue was measured, it makes (Delta) n equals 0.001 for both types of studied tissues. We have suspected that optics of the muscle tissue is similar to optical properties of a uniaxial crystal, which optic axis is parallel to fibrils of a tissue. Due to more complicated structure scleral tissue optics is similar to optics of a biaxial crystal. The estimated value of an optical anisotorpy of the clarified sclera allowed us to evaluate the mean length of collagen fibrils of about 2 mm at mean radius of fibrils of 50 nm.

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Georgy V. Simonenko, Tatyana P. Denisova, Nina A. Lakodina, and Valery V. Tuchin "Measurement of an optical anisotropy of biotissues", Proc. SPIE 3915, Coherence Domain Optical Methods in Biomedical Science and Clinical Applications IV, (28 April 2000); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.384167

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