Backscattering of linearly polarized light from turbid tissue-like scattering medium with rough surface

Alexander Doronin; Lioudmila Tchvialeva; Igor Markhvida; Tim K. Lee; Igor Meglinski

doi:10.1117/1.JBO.21.7.071117

11 July 2016 Backscattering of linearly polarized light from turbid tissue-like scattering medium with rough surface

Alexander Doronin, Lioudmila Tchvialeva, Igor Markhvida, Tim K. Lee, Igor Meglinski

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Journal of Biomedical Optics, Vol. 21, Issue 7, 071117 (July 2016). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JBO.21.7.071117

Abstract

In the framework of further development of a unified computational tool for the needs of biomedical optics, we introduce an electric field Monte Carlo (MC) model for simulation of backscattering of coherent linearly polarized light from a turbid tissue-like scattering medium with a rough surface. We consider the laser speckle patterns formation and the role of surface roughness in the depolarization of linearly polarized light backscattered from the medium. The mutual phase shifts due to the photons’ pathlength difference within the medium and due to reflection/refraction on the rough surface of the medium are taken into account. The validation of the model includes the creation of the phantoms of various roughness and optical properties, measurements of co- and cross-polarized components of the backscattered/reflected light, its analysis and extensive computer modeling accelerated by parallel computing on the NVIDIA graphics processing units using compute unified device architecture (CUDA). The analysis of the spatial intensity distribution is based on second-order statistics that shows a strong correlation with the surface roughness, both with the results of modeling and experiment. The results of modeling show a good agreement with the results of experimental measurements on phantoms mimicking human skin. The developed MC approach can be used for the direct simulation of light scattered by the turbid scattering medium with various roughness of the surface.

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Alexander Doronin, Lioudmila Tchvialeva, Igor Markhvida, Tim K. Lee, and Igor Meglinski "Backscattering of linearly polarized light from turbid tissue-like scattering medium with rough surface," Journal of Biomedical Optics 21(7), 071117 (11 July 2016). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JBO.21.7.071117

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