Characterization Of Pathological Skin Sample By Polarimetric Technique

Abstract

Measurement of optical properties of skin is an expanding and growing field of research. Recent studies have shown that the biological tissue, especially skin changes the polarization state of the incident light. Using this property will enable the study of abnormalities and diseases that alter not only the light intensity but also its polarization state. We have tried an experimental study for measuring changes of polarization state of the light scattered from skin sample. Using the strokes vector and Mueller matrix notation we have shown that some elements of matrix were sensitive to the changes of the polarization when physical properties of the scatters are changed with sample.