Differentiating characteristic microstructural features of cancerous tissues using Mueller matrix microscope

Polarized light imaging can provide rich microstructural information of samples, and has been applied to the detections of various abnormal tissues. In this paper, we report a polarized light microscope based on Mueller matrix imaging by adding the polarization state generator and analyzer (PSG and PSA) to a commercial transmission optical microscope. The maximum errors for the absolute values of Mueller matrix elements are reduced to 0.01 after calibration. This Mueller matrix microscope has been used to examine human cervical and liver cancerous tissues with fibrosis. Images of the transformed Mueller matrix parameters provide quantitative assessment on the characteristic features of the pathological tissues. Contrast mechanism of the experimental results are backed up by Monte Carlo simulations based on the sphere–cylinder birefringence model, which reveal the relationship between the pathological features in the cancerous tissues at the cellular level and the polarization parameters. Both the experimental and simulated data indicate that the microscopic transformed Mueller matrix parameters can distinguish the breaking down of birefringent normal tissues for cervical cancer, or the formation of birefringent surrounding structures accompanying the inflammatory reaction for liver cancer. With its simple structure, fast measurement and high precision, polarized light microscope based on Mueller matrix shows a good diagnosis application prospect.     

共面不对称条件下Ag+(4p,4d)(e,2e)反应三重微分截面的理论研究

采用扭曲波玻恩近似(DWBA)理论计算了共面不对称几何条件下Ag⁺(4p⁶) 及Ag⁺(4d¹⁰)在不同入射电子能量和散射电子角度下(e,2e)反应的三重微分截面. 散射电子角度为4°, 10°和20°. 计算结果表明, Ag⁺(4p⁶)(e,2e)反应的三重微分截面其binary峰峰位或劈裂峰的谷位与动量转移方向有较大差别, 这可能是由于一种两次两体碰撞造成的. 另外, 还发现Ag⁺(4p⁶)(e,2e)反应三重微分截面的binary峰出现了反常劈裂现象, 这表明离子靶内壳层电离(e,2e)反应过程较外壳层更为复杂.对Ag⁺(4p⁶)及Ag⁺(4d¹⁰), 除binary峰和recoil峰以外, 在其他敲出电子角度出现了新的峰, 本文用几种两次两体碰撞过程对这些新的峰进行了解释.