In vivo optical characterization of human tissues from 610 to 1010 nm by time-resolved reflectance spectroscopy

A Torricelli, A Pifferi, P Taroni… - Physics in Medicine …, 2001 - iopscience.iop.org
A fully automated system for time-resolved reflectance spectroscopy based on tunable mode-
locked laser sources and on time-correlated single-photon counting for the detection of time …

Noninvasive absorption and scattering spectroscopy of bulk diffusive media: An application to the optical characterization of human breast

R Cubeddu, A Pifferi, P Taroni, A Torricelli… - Applied Physics …, 1999 - pubs.aip.org
A time-resolved reflectance and transmittance spectrophotometer was developed and used
to evaluate noninvasively and simultaneously the absorption and transport scattering …

In vivo absorption and scattering spectroscopy of biological tissues

P Taroni, A Pifferi, A Torricelli, D Comelli… - Photochemical & …, 2003 - pubs.rsc.org
Different approaches for absorption and scattering spectroscopy of living tissues are
discussed. In particular, a unique system for time-resolved reflectance and transmittance …

Comparison of spatially and temporally resolved diffuse-reflectance measurement systems for determination of biomedical optical properties

J Swartling, JS Dam, S Andersson-Engels - Applied optics, 2003 - opg.optica.org
Time-resolved and spatially resolved measurements of the diffuse reflectance from
biological tissue are two well-established techniques for extracting the reduced scattering …

Time-resolved reflectance: a systematic study for application to the optical characterization of tissues

R Cubeddu, M Musolino, A Pifferi… - IEEE Journal of …, 1994 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In principle, the measurement of the time-resolved diffuse reflectance, as interpreted on the
basis of the diffusion theory, allows one to determine the optical properties (absorption …

Experimental test of theoretical models for time‐resolved reflectance

R Cubeddu, A Pifferi, P Taroni, A Torricelli… - Medical …, 1996 - Wiley Online Library
Four different expressions, derived from the diffusion theory or the random walk model, were
used to fit time‐resolved reflectance data for the evaluation of tissue optical properties. The …

Development of time-resolved spectroscopy system for quantitative noninvasive tissue measurement

M Miwa, Y Ueda, B Chance - Optical Tomography, Photon …, 1995 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Near IR time resolved spectroscopy has been studied for quantitative determination of
absorbance in highly scattering medium such as tissue. When a very narrow optical pulse is …

Portable 8-channel time-resolved optical imager for functional studies of biological tissues

R Cubeddu, E Giambattistelli, A Pifferi… - … on Biomedical Optics, 2001 - opg.optica.org
We developed a portable dual-wavelength 8-channel system for time-resolved reflectance
measurements based on pulsed laser diodes, a multianode photomultiplier and a time …

The potential of time-resolved reflectance measurements for the noninvasive determination of tissue optical properties

B Wilson, Y Park, Y Hefetz, M Patterson… - Thermal and Optical …, 1989 - spiedigitallibrary.org
The time spectrum of photons diffusely reflected from a turbid medium such as tissue
following a short incident light pulse depends on the optical absorption and scattering …

Determination of tissue optical properties by steady-state spatial frequency-domain reflectometry

N Dögnitz, G Wagnières - Lasers in medical science, 1998 - Springer
A new non-invasive method to measure the optical properties of biological tissue is
described. This method consists of illuminating the investigated sample with light which is …