Abstract Knowledge of the optical properties is in medicine very important for modeling of
light propagation in tissue, diagnosis and therapeutical methods. The aim of a theoretical …

Significance The estimation of tissue optical properties using diffuse optics has found a
range of applications in disease detection, therapy monitoring, and general health care …

To study how light behaves inside a highly diffusing medium such as biological tissues; it is
necessary to know the optical properties of the media. We investigated how light propagates …

Two methods for measuring the optical properties of tissue, ie reduced scattering and
absorption coefficient, were developed. The first one was designed for in vitro investigations …

Knowledge of tissue optical properties, in particular the absorption μa and the reduced
scattering coefficient μ s′, is required for diagnostic and therapeutic applications in which …

This issue of Applied Optics features twenty-two papers on the optical character of tissue, a
topic of growing importance in the life sciences. The papers deal with theory and experiment …

The propagation of light in biological tissue depends on the absorption and reduced
scattering coefficient. The aim of this project is the determination of these two optical …

Recent technological advancements in the photonics industry have spurred real progress
toward the development of clinical functional imaging and surgical and therapeutic systems …

Theoretical and computer modeling approaches, such as Mie theory, radiative transfer
theory, diffusion wave correlation spectroscopy, Monte Carlo simulation method were …

To deduce the optical properties, the absorption coefficient SmU a and reduced scattering
coefficient μ's, of turbid medium, Lin et al.(Appl. Opt. 34 (1995) 2362) proposed an oblique …