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MEASUREMENTS OF THERMAL DAMAGE IN BIOLOGICAL TISSUE USING POLARIZED LIGHT SIMULATION

Jong-In Youn


Recently, thermal treatment has been used for collagen tightening and tissue contour enhancement. It is important to monitor the condition of collagenous tissue during and immediately after thermal treatment. When collagen is denatured, birefringence is reduced and a change in polarization state occurs. In this study, Monte Carlo simulation for polarized light was used to calculate the degree of linear polarization (DOLP) of backscattered light from thermally damaged porcine skins and the results were evalu