Meglinski Igor, Novikova Tatiana, Dholakia Kishan
College of Engineering and Physical Science, Aston University, Birmingham, B4 7ET, United Kingdom.
Institute of Clinical Medicine N.V. Sklifosovsky, I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University, Moscow, Russia.
Biomed Opt Express. 2021 Sep 14;12(10):6255-6258. doi: 10.1364/BOE.442828. eCollection 2021 Oct 1.
In the last decade, consistent and successful innovations have been achieved in the field of lasers and optics, collectively known as 'photonics', founding new applications in biomedicine, including clinical biopsy. Non-invasive photonics-based diagnostic modalities are rapidly expanding, and with their exponential improvement, there is a great potential to develop practical instrumentation for automatic detection and identification of different types and/or sub-types of diseases at a very early stage. While using conventional light for the studies of different properties of objects in materials science, astrophysics and biomedicine already has a long history, the interaction of polarized light and optical angular momentum with turbid tissue-like scattering media has not yet been ultimately explored. Since recently this research area became a hot topic. This feature issue is a first attempt to summarize the recognitions achieved in this emerging research field of polarized light and optical angular momentum for practical biomedical applications during the last years.
在过去十年中，激光和光学领域取得了持续且成功的创新，这些创新统称为“光子学”，为生物医学带来了新的应用，包括临床活检。基于光子学的非侵入性诊断方式正在迅速扩展，随着其呈指数级改进，在疾病极早期阶段开发用于自动检测和识别不同类型和/或亚型疾病的实用仪器具有巨大潜力。虽然在材料科学、天体物理学和生物医学中使用传统光来研究物体的不同特性已有很长历史，但偏振光和光学角动量与浑浊的组织样散射介质之间的相互作用尚未得到充分探索。直到最近，这个研究领域才成为一个热门话题。本期专题是首次尝试总结过去几年在偏振光和光学角动量这一新兴研究领域中取得的、适用于实际生物医学应用的认识。
