Statistical structure of skin derma Mueller matrix images in the process of cancer changes

This research is aimed to investigate the reliability of Mueller-matrix differentiation of birefringence change of optically thick layers of biological tissues at the early stages of the change in their physiological state. This is performed by measuring the set of the skewness and the kurtosis values of Mueller matrix image of the phase element M44 in various points of the object under investigation.

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