Infrared and Laser Engineering, Volume. 45, Issue 6, 633001(2016)

Non-linear correction of area CMOS sensor in polarization imaging system

Fu Yifan1、*, Wu Jian1, and He Honghui2
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    Polarization imaging with mueller matrix can be used to obtain the physiological information of superficial biological tissue, which has significant importance in early diagnosis and prevention of cancerous disease. However, the mueller matrix deduced by the polarization information collected from the commercial CMOS sensor directly is not correct, which limits the application of commercial micro CMOS sensor in the endoscopic imaging. The study on commercial area CMOS sensor indicates its non-linear input to output mapping relationship for sensed light intensity. Considering the inherent background noise, a calibration-based method was proposed to mapping the output of the CMOS sensor to obtain the correct polarization information for tested samples. Experiment results demonstrate that the correct mueller matrix can be deduced according to the corrected polarization information, and the error compared to the standard air mueller matrix is below 3%. The effectiveness of this method is demonstrated by the experiment implemented on silk sample. The results of the proposed method reveal the possibility to apply commercial micro CMOS sensor on the endoscopic tip for in vivo biological tissue mueller matrix measurement.

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    Paper Information

    Category: 生物光子学

    Received: Oct. 5, 2015

    Accepted: Nov. 3, 2015

    Published Online: Jul. 26, 2016

    The Author Email: Yifan Fu (fuyf14@mails.tsinghua.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.3788/irla201645.0633001

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