Inverse radiative transfer problems: a review

NJ McCormick - Nuclear science and Engineering, 1992 - Taylor & Francis
Recent solutions to inverse problems are reviewed for the estimation of optical properties or
the thickness of a medium, or the presence of a spatially distributed source or an obscured …

Optical properties of Intralipid: a phantom medium for light propagation studies

ST Flock, SL Jacques, BC Wilson… - Lasers in surgery …, 1992 - Wiley Online Library
Intralipid™ is an intravenous nutrient consisting of an emulsion of phospholipid micelles and
water. Because Intralipid is turbid and has no strong absorption bands in the visible region …

A finite element approach for modeling photon transport in tissue

SR Arridge, M Schweiger, M Hiraoka… - Medical …, 1993 - Wiley Online Library
The use of optical radiation in medical physics is important in several fields for both
treatment and diagnosis. In all cases an analytic and computable model of the propagation …

The theoretical basis for the determination of optical pathlengths in tissue: temporal and frequency analysis

SR Arridge, M Cope, DT Delpy - Physics in Medicine & Biology, 1992 - iopscience.iop.org
A concise theoretical treatment is developed for the calculation of mean time, differential
pathlength, phase shift, modulation depth and integrated intensity of measurements of light …

Optical reflectance and transmittance of tissues: principles and applications

BC Wilson, SL Jacques - IEEE Journal of Quantum electronics, 1990 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A discussion is presented of diagnostic and dosimetric optical measurements in medicine
and biology. Topics covered include: tissue optical properties, tissue boundary conditions …

A solid tissue phantom for photon migration studies

R Cubeddu, A Pifferi, P Taroni… - Physics in Medicine & …, 1997 - iopscience.iop.org
A solid tissue phantom made of agar, Intralipid and black ink is described and characterized.
The preparation procedure is fast and easily implemented with standard laboratory …

Frequency-domain multichannel optical detector for noninvasive tissue spectroscopy and oximetry

S Fantini, MA Franceschini, JS Maier… - Optical …, 1995 - spiedigitallibrary.org
We have designed a multisource frequency-domain spectrometer for the optical study of
biological tissues. Eight multiplexed, intensity-modulated LEDs are employed as the light …

Spectral dependence of temporal point spread functions in human tissues

M Essenpreis, CE Elwell, M Cope, P Van der Zee… - Applied …, 1993 - opg.optica.org
We have determined the spectral dependence of the temporal point spread functions of
human tissues experimentally between 740 and 840 nm in transmittance measurements on …

Photon-measurement density functions. Part I: Analytical forms

SR Arridge - Applied Optics, 1995 - opg.optica.org
This paper addresses the problem of tomographic reconstruction of absorption and
scattering parameters in the optical region from measurements of transilluminated light …

Quantitative determination of the absorption spectra of chromophores in strongly scattering media: a light-emitting-diode based technique

S Fantini, MA Franceschini, JB Fishkin, B Barbieri… - Applied …, 1994 - opg.optica.org
The absorption and scattering coefficient of a macroscopically homogeneous strongly
scattering medium (lipid emulsion) containing Methylene Blue is quantitatively measured in …