Experimental determination of photon propagation in highly absorbing and scattering media

J Ripoll, D Yessayan, G Zacharakis, V Ntziachristos - JOSA A, 2005 - opg.optica.org
Optical imaging and tomography in tissues can facilitate the quantitative study of several
important chromophores and fluorophores. Several theoretical models have been validated …

Measurement of optical transport properties of normal and malignant human breast tissue

N Ghosh, SK Mohanty, SK Majumder, PK Gupta - Applied Optics, 2001 - opg.optica.org
We report measurement of optical transport parameters of normal and malignant (ductal
carcinoma) human breast tissue. A spatially resolved steady-state diffuse reflectance …

Near-infrared optical properties of ex vivo human skin and subcutaneous tissues measured using the Monte Carlo inversion technique

CR Simpson, M Kohl, M Essenpreis… - Physics in Medicine & …, 1998 - iopscience.iop.org
The absorption and transport scattering coefficients of caucasian and negroid dermis,
subdermal fat and muscle have been measured for all wavelengths between 620 and 1000 …

In vivo local determination of tissue optical properties: applications to human brain

F Bevilacqua, D Piguet, P Marquet, JD Gross… - Applied …, 1999 - opg.optica.org
Local and superficial near-infrared (NIR) optical-property characterization of turbid biological
tissues can be achieved by measurement of spatially resolved diffuse reflectance at small …

The influence of boundary conditions on the accuracy of diffusion theory in time-resolved reflectance spectroscopy of biological tissues

AH Hielscher, SL Jacques, L Wang… - Physics in Medicine & …, 1995 - iopscience.iop.org
The applicability of diffusion theory for the determination of tissue optical properties from
time-resolved reflectance spectroscopy is investigated. Analytical expressions from diffusion …

Spectral dependence of temporal point spread functions in human tissues

M Essenpreis, CE Elwell, M Cope, P Van der Zee… - Applied …, 1993 - opg.optica.org
We have determined the spectral dependence of the temporal point spread functions of
human tissues experimentally between 740 and 840 nm in transmittance measurements on …

Real-time method for fitting time-resolved reflectance and transmittance measurements with a Monte Carlo model

A Pifferi, P Taroni, G Valentini, S Andersson-Engels - Applied optics, 1998 - opg.optica.org
An efficient method is proposed for the evaluation of the absorption and the transport
scattering coefficients from a time-resolved reflectance or transmittance distribution. The …

Performance of a lookup table-based approach for measuring tissue optical properties with diffuse optical spectroscopy

BS Nichols, N Rajaram… - Journal of biomedical …, 2012 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Diffuse optical spectroscopy (DOS) provides a powerful tool for fast and noninvasive disease
diagnosis. The ability to leverage DOS to accurately quantify tissue optical parameters …

Frequency-domain optical absorption spectroscopy of finite tissue volumes using diffusion theory

BW Pogue, MS Patterson - Physics in medicine & biology, 1994 - iopscience.iop.org
The goal of frequency-domain optical absorption spectroscopy is the noninvasive
determination of the absorption coefficient of a specific tissue volume. Since this allows the …

Time resolved reflectance and transmittance for the noninvasive measurement of tissue optical properties

MS Patterson, B Chance, BC Wilson - Applied optics, 1989 - opg.optica.org
When a picosecond light pulse is incident on biological tissue, the temporal characteristics
of the light backscattered from, or transmitted through, the sample carry information about …