Fig 1.
Schematic presentation of the Mueller-polarimeter experimental setup, including “blue” laser diode (1), collimator (2), stationary quarter-wave plate (3), mechanically movable quarter-wave plates (5) and (8), polarizer (4) and analyzer (9), object of investigation (6), infinity corrected strain-free objective with tube lens (7), CCD camera (10), personal computer (11).
Fig 2.
Microscopic (4x) polarization-visualized images of the optically anisotropic component of the histological sections of the myocardium of control (a) and diagnosed (b) groups.
Fig 3.
Polarization-phase spatial distribution PT(m×n) and histograms N(PT) of the distributions Φ(m×n) and A(m×n) of myocardium histological sections of deceased patients from the group 1 (Δn0;90, Δn⊗;⊕, Δμ0;90, Δμ⊗;⊕) and the group 2 (,
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).
Table 1.
Parameters of the statistical analysis of polarization images of the polycrystalline structure of myocardium.
Table 2.
Parameters of the statistical analysis of myocardium polarization-phase images.
Table 3.
Operational characteristics of the method of the Mueller-matrix images of the optical anisotropy of the histological sections of the myocardium biopsy.