Supercontinuum-based nondisruptive scattering analyses of mouse fibroblast L929 cells before and after necrosis.

The scattering properties of biological tissue are highly dependent on the structure size, refractive index, and wavelength of the incident light. Furthermore, these scattering characteristics are strongly influenced by movements of the scattering objects. A method is developed to determine the angular- and spectral-resolved scattering properties that enabled the characterization of biological nano- and microscaled cell structures.