A review of the optical properties of biological tissues

WF Cheong, SA Prahl, AJ Welch - IEEE journal of quantum …, 1990 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The known optical properties (absorption, scattering, total attenuation, effective attenuation,
and/or anisotropy coefficients) of various biological tissues at a variety of wavelengths are …

Pathologic analysis of photothermal and photomechanical effects of laser–tissue interactions

S Thomsen - Photochemistry and photobiology, 1991 - Wiley Online Library
Pathologic analysis of the biologic effects and mechanisms of laser–tissue interactions
requires correlation of the irradiation parameters with the biologic status and response of the …

Determining the optical properties of turbid media by using the adding–doubling method

SA Prahl, MJC van Gemert, AJ Welch - Applied optics, 1993 - opg.optica.org
A method is described for finding the optical properties (scattering, absorption, and
scattering anisotropy) of a slab of turbid material by using total reflection, unscattered …

High-density diffuse optical tomography for imaging human brain function

MD Wheelock, JP Culver, AT Eggebrecht - Review of Scientific …, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
This review describes the unique opportunities and challenges for noninvasive optical
mapping of human brain function. Diffuse optical methods offer safe, portable, and radiation …

Measurement of optical properties of biological tissues by low-coherence reflectometry

JM Schmitt, A Knüttel, RF Bonner - Applied optics, 1993 - opg.optica.org
We show that optical properties of dense biological tissues can be determined from
backscattered power curves measured by a low-coherence reflectometer. Our measurement …

Light scattering study of tissues

VV Tuchin - Physics-Uspekhi, 1997 - iopscience.iop.org
Tissue optics is a rapidly expanding field of great interest to those involved in the
development of optical medical technologies. In the present review both strongly (multiple) …

Mie and Rayleigh modeling of visible-light scattering in neonatal skin

IS Saidi, SL Jacques, FK Tittel - Applied optics, 1995 - opg.optica.org
Reduced-scattering coefficients of neonatal skin were deduced in the 450–750-nm range
from integrating-sphere measurements of the total reflection and total transmission of 22 skin …

Time-resolved fluorescence and photon migration studies in biomedical and model random media

BB Das, F Liu, RR Alfano - Reports on progress in Physics, 1997 - iopscience.iop.org
This review highlights time-resolved fluorescence kinetics and photon transport in tissues
and other biomedical media with a special emphasis on ultrafast measurements of key …

Light scattering properties of natural and artificially demineralized dental enamel at

CL Darling, GD Huynh, D Fried - Journal of biomedical optics, 2006 - spiedigitallibrary.org
A fundamental understanding of how near-IR light propagates through sound and carious
dental hard tissues is essential for the development of clinically useful optical diagnostic …

Raman, fluorescence, and time-resolved light scattering as optical diagnostic techniques to separate diseased and normal biomedical media

CH Liu, BB Das, WLS Glassman, GC Tang… - … of Photochemistry and …, 1992 - Elsevier
Studies of Raman scattering, fluorescence and time-resolved light scattering were
conducted on cancer and normal biomedical media. Fourier transform Raman spectroscopic …