Linear diattenuation imaging of biological tissues with near infrared Mueller scanning microscopy - Laboratoire d'optique et de magnétisme
Journal Articles Biomedical optics express Year : 2021

Linear diattenuation imaging of biological tissues with near infrared Mueller scanning microscopy

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Among the multitude of optical polarization contrasts that can be observed in complex biological specimens, linear diattenuation (LD) imaging has received little attention. It is indeed challenging to image LD with basic polarizing microscopes because it is often relatively small in comparison with linear retardance (LR). In addition, interpretation of LD images is not straightforward when experiments are conducted in the visible range because LD can be produced by both dichroism and anisotropic scattering. Mueller polarimetry is a powerful implementation of polarization sensing able to differentiate and measure the anisotropies of specimens. In this article, near infrared transmission Mueller scanning microscopy is used to image LD in thin biological specimen sections made of various proteins with unprecedented resolution and sensitivity. The near infrared spectral range makes it possible to lower the contribution of dichroism to the total linear diattenuation in order to highlight anisotropic scattering. Pixel-by-pixel comparison of LD images with LR and multiphoton images demonstrates that LD is produced by under-resolved structures that are not revealed by other means, notably within the sarcomere of skeletal muscles. LD microscopy appears as a powerful tool to provide new insights into the macro-molecular organization of biological specimens at the sub-microscopic scale without labelling.
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hal-03478920 , version 1 (29-01-2024)

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Matthieu Dubreuil, Florine Tissier, Sylvain Rivet, Yann Le Grand. Linear diattenuation imaging of biological tissues with near infrared Mueller scanning microscopy. Biomedical optics express, 2021, 12 (1), pp.41. ⟨10.1364/BOE.408354⟩. ⟨hal-03478920⟩
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