Biomedical applications of integrating sphere: a review

A ul Rehman, I Ahmad, SA Qureshi - Photodiagnosis and photodynamic …, 2020 - Elsevier
Integrating sphere remains a valuable tool for biomedical optics research. Specifically, it has
been used to determine the optical properties (ie, absorption coefficient, scattering …

Double-integrating-sphere system at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in support of measurement standards for the determination of optical …

P Lemaillet, JP Bouchard, J Hwang… - Journal of biomedical …, 2015 - spiedigitallibrary.org
There is a need for a common reference point that will allow for the comparison of the optical
properties of tissue-mimicking phantoms. After a brief review of the methods that have been …

Double-integrating-sphere system for measuring the optical properties of tissue

JW Pickering, SA Prahl, N Van Wieringen, JF Beek… - Applied …, 1993 - opg.optica.org
A system is described and evaluated for the simultaneous measurement of the intrinsic
optical properties of tissue: the scattering coefficient, the absorption coefficient, and the …

Measurements of optical tissue properties using integrating sphere technique

A Roggan - Medical optical tomography: functional imaging …, 1993 - spiedigitallibrary.org
The optical properties of white matter human brain, canine prostate and pig liver were
measured in the wavelength range 330-1100 nm. The measurements were carried out in …

Study of the optical properties of solid tissue phantoms using single and double integrating sphere systems

S Monem, A Singh, AE Karsten, R Amin, MA Harith - Applied Physics B, 2015 - Springer
Tissue simulators, the so-called tissue phantoms, have been used to mimic human tissue for
spectroscopic applications. Phantoms' design depends on patterning the optical properties …

Determination of optical tissue properties with double integrating sphere technique and Monte Carlo simulations

A Roggan, O Minet, C Schroeder… - Cell and Biotissue …, 1994 - spiedigitallibrary.org
The optical properties of white matter human brain, canine prostate and pig liver were
measured in the wavelength range 330-1100 nm. The measurements were carried out in …

Effect of light losses of sample between two integrating spheres on optical properties estimation

D Zhu, W Lu, S Zeng, Q Luo - Journal of biomedical optics, 2007 - spiedigitallibrary.org
A Monte Carlo algorithm is applied to simulate the measurements of a sample with glass
slides sandwiched between the double integrating sphere (DIS) setup. The effects caused …

Determination of optical coefficients of biological tissue from a single integrating-sphere

L Zhang, A Shi, H Lu - Journal of Modern Optics, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
The detection of interactions between light and tissue can be used to characterize the optical
properties of the tissue. The development is described of a method that determines optical …

Optical properties measurement of highly diffusive tissue phantoms for biomedical applications

A Rehman, I Ahmad, K Rehman, S Anwar… - Laser …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
Extensive research in biomedical optics essentially requires the determination of optical
properties of various biological tissues. Quantitative characterization of biological tissues in …

The effect of light losses in double integrating spheres on optical properties estimation

G De Vries, JF Beek, GW Lucassen… - IEEE Journal of …, 1999 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The double integrating sphere setup (DIS) measures diffuse reflectance, diffuse
transmittance and collimated transmittance, from which the optical properties of tissue (the …