| Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7925949 | Optics Communications | 2018 | 7 Pages |
Abstract
A number of tissue-like disordered media exhibit local anisotropy of scattering in the scaling behavior. Scaling behavior contains wealth of fractal or multifractal properties. We demonstrate that the spatial dielectric fluctuations in a sample of biological tissue exhibit multifractal anisotropy. Multifractal anisotropy encoded in the wavelength variation of the light scattering Mueller matrix and manifesting as an intriguing spectral diattenuation effect. We developed an inverse method for the quantitative assessment of the multifractal anisotropy. The method is based on the processing of relevant Mueller matrix elements in Fourier domain by using Born approximation, followed by the multifractal analysis. The approach promises for probing subtle micro-structural changes in biological tissues associated with the cancer and precancer, as well as for non-destructive characterization of a wide range of scattering materials.
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Authors
Nandan Kumar Das, Rajib Dey, Semanti Chakraborty, Prasanta K. Panigrahi, Igor Meglinski, Nirmalya Ghosh,