Polarized Laser Beam Scattering through Turbid Medium for Application in Tissue Imaging

Shamaraz Firdous* and Masroor Ikram

ABSTRACT: We present the experimental results for scattering intensity which arises from illumination of turbid medium with laser light for characterizing the different types of particles. The imaging of tissue like phantom provides the possibility of modeling the laser tissue interaction parameters for the diagnostic of malignant disease and determining the optical properties of a material. Analytical modeling of optical materials with Stokes Mueller matrix provides a unique solution for characterization of sample material. The soybean oil (turbid medium) having properties of interloped phantom is studied. Optics orientation of polarizer-analyzer setup provides the analytical model for turbid medium characterization and can be extended for tissues imaging.

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Department of Physics and Applied Mathematics, Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied
Sciences (PIEAS), Nilore 45650, Islamabad, Pakistan.

* Corresponding author, E-mail: sfirdous@pieas.edu.pk

Received 9 Jul 2004, Accepted 22 Feb 2005