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Polarization Correlometry of Scattering Biological Tissues and Fluids

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Among the extensively used traditional methods for studying the turbid tissue-like phase-inhomogeneous media, an important place belongs to matrix polarimetry—based diagnosis of optically anisotropic biological samples.

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  1. Bukovinian State Medical University, Chernivtsi, Ukraine

    V. T. Bachinskyi

  2. Bukovinian State Medical University, Chernivtsi, Ukraine

    O. Ya. Wanchulyak

  3. Optics and Publishing Department, Chernivtsi National University, Chernivtsi, Ukraine

    A. G. Ushenko

  4. Correlation Optics Department, Chernivtsi National University, Chernivtsi, Ukraine

    Yu. A. Ushenko

  5. Chernivtsi National University, Chernivtsi, Ukraine

    A. V. Dubolazov

  6. Opto-Electronics and Measurement Techniques Laboratory, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland

    Igor Meglinski

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Bachinskyi, V.T., Wanchulyak, O.Y., Ushenko, A.G., Ushenko, Y.A., Dubolazov, A.V., Meglinski, I. (2020). Introduction. In: Polarization Correlometry of Scattering Biological Tissues and Fluids. SpringerBriefs in Physics. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-2628-2_1

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