Immigration and epidemiological studies provide evidence indicating the correlation of high
ultraviolet exposure during childhood and increased risks of melanoma in later life. While …

A precise method to determine the absorption and reduced scattering coefficients of turbid
media from the spatial distribution of light has been developed. It allows in vitro local …

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 …

The optical properties of 1 μm polystyrene in the wavelength range of 500–750 nm were
estimated by using a white light spectrophotometric transmittance spectroscopy and a single …

An increasing number of applications, including non-or minimally invasive diagnostics and
treatment as well as various cosmetic procedures, has resulted in a need to determine the …

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Biomedical Optics as an interdisciplinary field of science has been developed during many
years and is experiencing tremendous growth, to cover a wide range of optical techniques …

Comparative study of the sensitivity of the local fluorescence spectroscopy in the detection of
malignancies with a size of 1–7 mm is performed for various fluorescence excitation …

We have performed extensive investigations using laser-induced fluorescence in animal as
well as human tissue in order to localize diseased tissue and thus discriminate such tissue …

Diffuse optical imaging is a functional medical imaging modality which takes advantage of
the relatively low attenuation of near-infrared light to probe the internal optical properties of …