Papers Published

1. Chalut, KJ; Giacomelli, MG; Wax, A, Application of Mie theory to assess structure of spheroidal scattering in backscattering geometries., Journal of the Optical Society of America A, vol. 25 no. 8 (August, 2008), pp. 1866-1874 [doi] .
   (last updated on 2023/06/01)

   Abstract:
   Inverse light scattering analysis seeks to associate measured scattering properties with the most probable theoretical scattering distribution. Although Mie theory is a spherical scattering model, it has been used successfully for discerning the geometry of spheroidal scatterers. The goal of this study was an in-depth evaluation of the consequences of analyzing the structure of spheroidal geometries, which are relevant to cell and tissue studies in biology, by employing Mie-theory-based inverse light scattering analysis. As a basis for this study, the scattering from spheroidal geometries was modeled using T-matrix theory and used as test data. In a previous study, we used this technique to investigate the case of spheroidal scatterers aligned with the optical axis. In the present study, we look at a broader scope which includes the effects of aspect ratio, orientation, refractive index, and incident light polarization. Over this wide range of parameters, our results indicate that this method provides a good estimate of spheroidal structure.