The oxygen saturation of blood, the cardiac output and the nature of pathological conditions
in the heart and larger vessels can be determined by photometry using whole blood. Under …

Modelling the diffusion optical characteristics of blood is quite useful in the study of oximetry.
The diffusion dipole of Fretterd and Longini (1973) is applied to the solution of the diffusion …

The results of calculations which use diffusion equations for photons to calculate optical
transmission and backscattering by whole blood will be compared with a variety of …

The fundamental parameters necessary for describing the optical behavior of nonhemolyzed
blood by means of diffusion equations for photons are presented. The methods and results …

The diffusion equations for randomly directed photons are applied to the problem of the in
vivo determination of the oxygen relative saturation in blood. A model of the living tissue is …

A set of equations derived to describe the optics of highly scattering materials are explained,
extended, and applied to the problem of in vitro and in vivo measurement of the relative …

Light is absorbed and scattered by whole blood. At very low hematocrit values scattering is
small, but for hematocrit≧ 0.05 light patterns in blood indicate that scattered photons obey …

Photon-diffusion theory has had limited success in modeling the optical transmittance of
whole blood. Therefore we have developed a new photon-diffusion model of the optical …

Previous theories describing the optical properties of whole blood have assumed a
collimated light source in the derivation of reflectance and transmittance equations …

To develop an algorithm for the spectrophotometric determination of the oxygen saturation in
blood, a model for the transmission of light in a scattering and absorbing medium is …