Unified polarization imaging theory for preclinical disease detection and diagnosticsDetecting pathological tissue changes before clinical symptoms emerge requires imaging methods with high structural sensitivity. Polarization-Based Optical Imaging for Clinical Diagnostics presents a unified phenomenological theory integrating polarization interferometry, Mueller and Jones matrix mapping, digital holography, and phase scanning. Edited by a team of optical ...

This book explores the early-stage detection of cancer using polarized light. It discusses the diverse properties of the light (temporal and spatial coherence, polarization, fluorescence, etc.) that can be used non-invasively as an optical technique for recognizing precancerous lesions, which could become a reliable and accurate method for cancer screening. The search for the effective means for cancer screening is of particular interest to scientific and medical communities, because cance...