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 …

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 …

Spatially resolved absolute diffuse reflectance measurements for noninvasive determination of the optical scattering and absorption coefficients of biological tissue

A Kienle, L Lilge, MS Patterson, R Hibst, R Steiner… - Applied …, 1996 - opg.optica.org
The absorption and transport scattering coefficients of biological tissues determine the radial
dependence of the diffuse reflectance that is due to a point source. A system is described for …

Clinical determination of tissue optical properties in vivo by spatially resolved reflectance measurements

TJ Beck, W Beyer, T Pongratz, W Stummer… - … on biomedical optics, 2003 - opg.optica.org
For many clinical light applications, such as photodynamic therapy (PDT), the therapeutic
effect strongly depends on the light dose in a certain tissue depth. A measure for the …

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 …

Influence of the phase function on determination of the optical properties of biological tissue by spatially resolved reflectance

A Kienle, FK Forster, R Hibst - Optics letters, 2001 - opg.optica.org
Spatially resolved reflectance measurements are widely used for determination of the optical
properties of biological media. However, the influence of the phase function on these …

A fiberoptic reflectance probe with multiple source-collector separations to increase the dynamic range of derived tissue optical absorption and scattering coefficients

A Kim, M Roy, F Dadani, BC Wilson - Optics express, 2010 - opg.optica.org
Measurement of tissue optical absorption and (transport) reduced scattering coefficients
(μ_a and μ_s', respectively) is fundamental to many applications of light in medicine and …

Design and testing of a white-light, steady-state diffuse reflectance spectrometer for determination of optical properties of highly scattering systems

MG Nichols, EL Hull, TH Foster - Applied optics, 1997 - opg.optica.org
We present a steady-state radially resolved diffuse reflectance spectrometer capable of
measuring the absorption and transport scattering spectra of tissue-simulating phantoms …

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 …

Diffuse-reflectance spectroscopy from 500 to 1060 nm by correction for inhomogeneously distributed absorbers

RLP Van Veen, W Verkruysse, H Sterenborg - Optics letters, 2002 - opg.optica.org
Diffuse-reflectance spectroscopy for measurement of the absorption and scattering
coefficients of biological tissue produces reliable results for wavelengths from 650 to 1050 …