1. Polarization birefringence measurements for characterizing the myocardium, including healthy, infracted, and stem cell treated regenerating cardiac tissues, Michael F. G. Wood, Nirmalya Ghosh, Marika A. Wallenburg, Shu-Hong Li, Richard D. Weisel, Brian C. Wilson, Ren-Ki Li, and I. Alex Vitkin, Journal of Biomedical Optics (in press). 

2. Comparison of optical polarimetry and diffusion tensor MR imaging for assessing myocardial anisotropy, Marika A. Wallenburg, Mihaela Pop, Michael F. G. Wood, Nirmalya Ghosh, Graham A. Wright and I. Alex Vitkin, Journal of Innovative Optical Health Sciences, 3(2), 109-121 (2010).  

3. Effect of optical axis orientation on polarimetry-based linear retardance measurements, Marika A. Wallenburg, Michael F. G. Wood, Nirmalya Ghosh and I. Alex Vitkin, Optics Letters, 35, 2570 – 2572 (2010).

4. Influence of the order of the constituent basis matrices on the Mueller matrix decomposition-derived polarization parameters in complex turbid media such as biological tissues, Nirmalya Ghosh, Michael F. G. Wood and I. Alex Vitkin, Optics Communications, 283, 1200 – 1208 (2010). 

5. Depolarization of light in turbid media: a scattering event resolved Monte Carlo study, Xinxin Guo, Michael F. G. Wood, Nirmalya Ghosh, and I. Alex Vitkin, Applied Optics, 49 (2), 153-162 (2010). [Virtual Journal of Biomedical Optics, 5 (3), 2010]. 

6. Polarimetry in turbid, birefringent, optically active media: a Monte Carlo study of Mueller matrix decomposition in the backscattering geometry; Nirmalya Ghosh, Michael F G Wood, I Alex Vitkin, Journal of Applied Physics, 105 (10), 102023-102023-8 (2009).

7. Mueller matrix decomposition for polarized light assessment of biological tissues; Nirmalya Ghosh, Michael F. G. Wood, Shu-hong Li, Richard D. Weisel, Brian C. Wilson, Ren-Ke Li, and I. Alex Vitkin, Journal of Biophotonics, 2, 145 – 156 (2009).

8. Proof-of-principle demonstration of a Mueller matrix decomposition method for polarized light tissue characterization in vivo; Michael F. G. Wood, Nirmalya Ghosh, Eduardo H. Moriyama, Brian C. Wilson, and I. Alex Vitkin, Journal of Biomedical Optics, 14, 014029(2009).

9. Polarized diffuse reflectance measurements on cancerous and noncancerous tissues; S. Manhas, M. K. Swami, H. S. Patel, A. Uppal, N. Ghosh and P. K. Gupta, J. Biophotonics, 2, 581-587 (2009).

10. Mueller matrix decomposition for extraction of individual polarization parameters from complex turbid media exhibiting multiple scattering, optical activity and linear birefringence; Nirmalya Ghosh, Michael F G Wood, I Alex Vitkin, Journal of Biomedical Optics, 13, 044036 (2008).

11. Simultaneous determination of size and refractive index of red blood cells by light scattering measurements; N. Ghosh, P. Buddhiwant, A. Uppal, S.K. Majumder, H.S. Patel and P.K. Gupta, Applied Physics Letters, 88, 084101 (2006).

12. Anomalous behavior of depolarization of light in a turbid medium; N. Ghosh, P.K. Gupta, A. Pradhan, S.K. Majumder, Physics Letters A, 354, 236 – 242 (2006).

13. Polar decomposition of 3 ´ 3 Mueller matrix: a tool for quantitative tissue polarimetry; M.K. Swami, S. Manhas, P. Buddhiwant, N. Ghosh, A. Uppal and P.K. Gupta, Optics Express, 14, 9324 – 9337 (2006).

14. Mueller matrix approach for determination of optical rotation in chiral turbid media in backscattering geometry; S. Manhas, M.K. Swami, P. Buddhiwant, N. Ghosh, P.K. Gupta and K. Singh, Optics Express, 14, 190 – 202 (2006).

15. Multi-class classification algorithm for optical diagnosis of oral cancer; S.K. Majumder, A. Gupta, S. Gupta, N. Ghosh, and P.K. Gupta, Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology B, 85, 109 – 117 (2006).

16. Depth resolved fluorescence measurement in layered turbid medium by polarized fluorescence spectroscopy; N. Ghosh, S. K.  Majumder, H. S. Patel and P. K. Gupta, Optics Letters, 30, 162 - 164 (2005).

17. Depolarization of light in a multiply scattering medium: effect of refractive index of scatterer; Nirmalya Ghosh, Asima Pradhan, Pradeep Kumar Gupta, Sharad Gupta, V. Jaiswal and R. P. Singh, Physical Review E, 70, 066607,1 -7 (2004).

18. N2 laser excited autofluorescence spectroscopy of formalin-fixed human breast tissue; S.K. Majumder, N. Ghosh, P.K. Gupta, Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology B, 81, 33 – 42 (2005).

19. Relevance Vector Machine for Optical Diagnosis of Cancer; S.K. Majumder, N. Ghosh and P.K. Gupta, Lasers in Surgery and Medicine, 36, 323 – 333  (2005).

20. Support Vector Machine for Optical Diagnosis of Cancer; S.K. Majumder, N. Ghosh and P.K. Gupta, Journal of Biomedical Optics, 10, 024034, 1-14 (2005).

21. A fluorescence spectroscopic study of honey and cane sugar syrup; ,N. Ghosh, Y. Verma, S.K. Majumder and P.K. Gupta, Food Science and Technology Research, 11 (1) (2005).

22. Fluorometric estimation of concentration of NADH from human blood sample; A. Uppal, N.Ghosh, A. Datta and P.K. Gupta, Biotechnology and Applied Biochemistry, 40, 1-5 (2004).

23. Depolarization of light in tissue phantoms – effect of a distribution in the size of scatterers; N. Ghosh, H.S. Patel, P.K. Gupta, Optics Express, 11, 2198 –2205 (2003).

24. Depolarization of light in tissue phantoms – effect of collection geometry; N. Ghosh, P.K. Gupta, H.S. Patel, B. Jain and B.N. Singh “Optics Communications, 222, 93 –99 (2003).

25. Nonlinear Pattern Recognition for Laser-Induced Fluorescence Diagnosis of Cancer;  Shovan K Majumder, Nirmalya Ghosh, Sudhir Kataria, and Pradeep K Gupta, Lasers in Surgery and Medicine, 33, 48:56 (2003).

26. Recovery of intrinsic fluorescence from the measured fluorescence in a turbid medium: an experimental approach; N.C. Biswal, S. Gupta, N. Ghosh, A. Pradhan, Optics Express, 11, 3320 –3321 (2003).

27. Fluorescence depolarization in a scattering medium: Effect of size parameter of scatterer; N.Ghosh, S.K. Majumder and P.K. Gupta, , Physical. Review E, 65, 26608, 1-6 (2002).

28.  Polarized fluorescence spectroscopy of human tissues; N.Ghosh, S.K.Majumder, and P.K.Gupta, Optics Letters, 27, 2007 - 2009 (2002).

29. Diffuse reflectance studies of edible fats; N. Ghosh, A.Datta and P.K. Gupta,  Applied Spectroscopy, 56, 1094 – 1097 (2002).

30. Spatial variation of fluorescence in human breast tissues; M.S. Nair, N. Ghosh, N.S. Raju and A. Pradhan,  Applied Optics, 41, 4024 – 4035 (2002).

31. A pilot study on the use of autofluorescence spectroscopy for diagnosis of the cancer of human oral cavity; S.K. Majumder, S.K. Mohanty, N. Ghosh, P.K. Gupta, D.K. Jain and Fareed Khan, Current Science, 79, 1089 - 1094 (2000).

32. Measurement of optical transport properties of malignant and normal human breast tissues; N. Ghosh, S.K. Mohanty, S.K. Majumder and P.K. Gupta, Applied Optics, 40, 176 - 184 (2001).

33. Depolarization of Autofluorescence from Malignant and Normal Human Breast Tissues; S.K.Mohanty, N.Ghosh, S.K.Majumder, and P.K. Gupta, Applied Optics, 40, 1147 - 1154 (2001).

1. Polarized light assessment of complex turbid media such as biological tissues using Mueller matrix decomposition; Chapter 9, Handbook of Photonics for Biomedical Science, Edited by Valery V. Tuchin, Taylor and Francis Publishing, pp 253 – 282, Nirmalya Ghosh, Michael Wood, and Alex Vitkin (2010).

2. Towards noninvasive glucose sensing using polarization analysis of multiply scattered light; Chapter -17,  Handbook of Optical Sensing of Glucose in Biological Fluids and Tissues, Edited by Valery V. Tuchin,  Series in Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering  Volume: 12, Taylor and Francis Publishing, Michael F. G. Wood, Nirmalya Ghosh, Xinxin Guo and I. Alex Vitkin (2008).

3. Lasers and laser tissue interaction; Fundamentals & Applications of Biophotonics in Dentistry, Ed. A Kishen and A Asundi, Imperial College Press, London, pp. 123-148 P. K. Gupta, N. Ghosh, and H. S. Patel (2007).

1. Diagnostic photomedicine: probing biological tissues with polarized light; SPIE Newsroom article, 10.1117/2.1200808.1238, (2008).

2.  Mueller Matrix Approach for Discriminating Optical Rotation;  Optics and Photonics News, 41, (2006).

3. Shedding light on cancer detection;  News India, page 13, (February (2001).

4. Indian group develops tools for oral cancer diagnosis; The Lancet Oncology, 2, 258, (May 2001).

1. Mueller matrix decomposition for polarized light assessment of complex turbid media: Potential biomedical applications; European Workshop, Polarization-based optical techniques applied to biology and medicine, Massy, France, 30 – 31 March, 2009.

2. Tissue Optics; SERC School on Biophotonics, Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced Technology, Indore, February 6th – 24th, 2006.

3. Depolarization of light in turbid medium;  Workshop on Biomedical optics and related topics, S.N. Bose National Center for Basic Sciences, Kolkata, India, February 23 - 25, 2004.

4. Theoretical modeling of fluorescence propagation in human tissue: applications in LIF diagnosis of cancer; International Conference on Mathematical Biology, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India, February 19 - 21, 2004.

5. Optical diagnosis of cancer; Winter College on Biophotonics: Manipulation and imaging of cells and molecules, held at ICTP, Trieste, Italy, Feb. 10 –21, 2003.

1. Mueller matrix decomposition for polarized light assessment of complex turbid media: Potential biomedical applications; N. Ghosh, M.F.G. Wood, I. A. Vitkin, PP 44 – 50, Proceedings European Workshop, Polarization-based optical techniques applied to biology and medicine, Massy, France, 30 – 31 March, 2009.

2. Polarized light based birefringence measurements for monitoring myocardial regeneration; Michael F. G. Wood, Nirmalya Ghosh, Shu-hong Li, Richard D. Weisel, Brian C. Wilson, Ren-Ke Li, and I. Alex Vitkin, Optics in Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine III, SPIE Photonics West (BIOS: Biomedical Optics), 24 - 29 January 2009, San Jose Convention Center, San Jose, CA, USA. Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 7179, pp. 717908-717908-9 (2009).

3. A Monte Carlo study of Mueller matrix decomposition in complex tissue-like turbid media; Nirmalya Ghosh, Michael F.G. Wood and I. Alex Vitkin, Biomedical Applications of Light Scattering III, SPIE Photonics West (BIOS: Biomedical Optics), 24 - 29 January 2009, San Jose Convention Center, San Jose, CA, USA. Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 7187, pp. 71870K-71870K-10 (2009).

4. Turbid Polarimetry for Tissue Characterization; Wood, M. F. G., Ghosh, N., Wallenburg, M. A., Moriyama, E. H., Li, S. H., Weisel, R. D., Wilson, B. C., Li, R. K., and Vitkin, I. A. (2009). Proceedings of SPIE, European Conferences on Biomedical Optics 2009, 7371-22.

5. Phantoms for Polarized Light Exhibiting Controllable Scattering, Birefringence, and Optical Activity; Michael F. G. Wood, Nirmalya Ghosh, Xinxin Guo, and I. Alex Vitkin, Proc. of SPIE Vol. 6870, 68700F, edited by Robert J. Nordstrom (2008).

6. Quantitative tissue polarimetry using polar decomposition of 3 by 3 Mueller matrix; M.K. Swami, S. Manhas, P. Buddhiwant, N. Ghosh, A. Uppal and P.K. Gupta, Proceedings SPIE, V. V. Tuchin Eds., Vol. (2006).

7. Monitoring of UVA induced apoptosis in MCF-7 cells by light scattering measurements; N. Ghosh, A. Uppal, S.K. Majumder and P.K. Gupta, Proceedings SPIE, V. V. Tuchin Eds., Vol. 6163, 616314, 1- 7 (2005).

8. Mueller matrix approach for determination of optical rotation in chiral turbid media in backscattering geometry; S. Manhas, M.K. Swami, P. Buddhiwant, N. Ghosh, P.K. Gupta and K. Singh , V. V. Tuchin Eds., Vol. 6163, 61630W, 1- 11 (2005).

9. Simultaneous determination of size and refractive index of red blood cells by light scattering measurements; N. Ghosh, P. Buddhiwant, A. Uppal, S.K. Majumder, H.S. Patel and P.K. Gupta, Proceedings of Conference in Lasers and Electro Optics (CLEO) (held at Baltimore, Maryland, USA, May 22nd – 27th), 2005.

10. Resolution of fluorophore depth in a turbid medium by polarized fluorescence spectroscopy; N. Ghosh, S.K. Majumder and P.K. Gupta, Proceedings of Conference in Lasers and Electro Optics (CLEO) (held at San Francisco, California, USA, May 16th – 21st) 2004.

11. Independent Component Analysis for Optical Diagnosis of Cancer; S K Majumder, N Ghosh and P K Gupta, CD-ROM Proc. 7th International conference on Optoelectronics, Fiber Optics and Photonics, BIO-13 (2004).

12. Cancer Diagnosis Using N2 Laser Excited Autofluorescence Spectroscopy of Formalin-Fixed Human Tissue; S K Majumder, R Kumar, N Ghosh and P K Gupta, Proc. 7th International conference on Optoelectronics, Fiber Optics and Photonics, BIO-5 (2004).

13. Machine Learning for Optical Diagnosis of Oral Cancer; S K Majumder, N Ghosh and P K Gupta, “Proc. 8th World Multi-Conference on Sytematics, Cybernetics and Informatics, Vol. XVI, 18-23 (2004).

14. Polarization gated optical imaging - effect of size parameter of scatterer;  Nirmalya Ghosh, Pradeep Kumar Gupta, Hari Shankar Patel and Bhrigu Nath Singh,  Proceedings SPIE, Optics in Health care and Biomedical Optics: Diagnostics and Treatment, Britton Chance; Mingzhe Chen; Gilwon Yoon Eds., Vol. 4916, 202 – 209 (2002).

15. Depolarization of light in turbid medium – effect of collection geometry;  Nirmalya Ghosh, Pradeep Kumar Gupta, Hari Shankar Patel, Beena Jain and Bhrigu Nath Singh, Proceedings SPIE, Optics in Health care and Biomedical Optics: Diagnostics and Treatment, Britton Chance; Mingzhe Chen; Gilwon Yoon Eds., Vol. 4916, 151 – 156 (2002).

16. Polarized fluorescence spectroscopy of human tissues; N.Ghosh, S.K.Majumder, and P.K.Gupta, Proceedings of the 14th world congress of the International Society for Laser Surgery and Medicine (Chennai, Madras, India, August 27 –30, 2001), Monduzzi editor.

17. Spatial variation of fluorescence in human breast tissues; A. Pradhan, M.S. Nair, N. Ghosh, A. Agarwal, Proceedings SPIE, Optical Biopsy III, R.R. Alfano Ed., Vol. 3917, 194 - 199 (2000).

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