Traditional biological and chemical methods for pathogen identification require complicated sample preparation for reliable results. The process of identification of malignant and non-malignant growths is not easier. Optical scattering method may be useful to detect bacterial cells in suspension and to determine malignant and non-malignant growths. Orthogonal Zernike moments of different order were used to analyze speckle patterns, which are formed by irradiated object of interests. Being irradiated by light every object forms a unique speckle pattern. Due to the originality of every single speckle pattern they may be used to obtain some information about object that formed this pattern.

Date Published: 9 June 2008
PDF: 7 pages
Proc. SPIE 6791, Saratov Fall Meeting 2007: Optical Technologies in Biophysics and Medicine IX, 67910M (9 June 2008); doi: 10.1117/12.803981

Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 6791:
Saratov Fall Meeting 2007: Optical Technologies in Biophysics and Medicine IX
Valery V. Tuchin, Editor(s)