Analytical Review of the Methods of Multifunctional Digital Mueller-matrix Laser Polarimetry -- Materials and Methods of Computer-Assisted Digital Mueller-Matrix Tomography of Biological Tissues and Fluids -- Differential Diagnosis of Tumors of the Prostate. Polarization-Singular Approach -- Polarization-Interference Mapping of Microscopic Images of Biological Layers and Polycrystalline Blood Films in the Differential Diagnosis of Benign and Malignant Tumors of the Prostate -- Information Analysis of Polarization-Holographic Mapping of Microscopic Images of Biological Samples of Tumors of the Prostate and Polycrystalline Blood Films in the Differential Diagnosis of the Severity of Pathological Conditions.

This book presents experimental investigations and digital image processing, highlighting the interaction of polarized radiation with phase-inhomogeneous and optically anisotropic biological layers. The promising and efficient use of vector-parametric description of the formation of polarization-inhomogeneous object fields is noted. Applications of a set of Mueller-matrix polarimetry methods are highlighted. The book includes- structural and logical scheme of multi-parameter (singular, interference and layer-by-layer Stokes-polarimetric), polarization-correlation study of the structure of distributions of the number of singularities, maps of local contrast of interference distributions and layer-by-layer maps of microscopic polarization azimuth and ellipticity; determination of relationships between changes in the magnitude of statistical parameters characterizing polarization-correlation distributions and pathology of prostate tumors.