  Mesoscopic physics-based dual spectroscopic imaging techniques, partial wave
spectroscopy (PWS) and inverse participation ratio (IPR), are used to quantify
the nano to submicron scales structural alterations in postnatal pups brain
cells and tissues due to fetal alcoholism. Chronic alcoholism during pregnancy,
being teratogenic, results in fetal alcohol syndrome and neurological disorder.
Results of PWS studies of brain tissues show a higher degree of structural
alterations. Furthermore, the IPR analyses of cell nuclei show that spatial
molecular mass density structural disorder increases in DNA while decreases for
histone. This study characterize the brain spatial structures from molecular to
tissue level in fetal alcoholism.
