Monte Carlo-based inverse model for calculating tissue optical properties. Part II: Application to breast cancer diagnosis

GM Palmer, C Zhu, TM Breslin, F Xu, KW Gilchrist… - Applied …, 2006 - opg.optica.org
The Monte Carlo-based inverse model of diffuse reflectance described in part I of this pair of
companion papers was applied to the diffuse reflectance spectra of a set of 17 malignant …

Monte Carlo-based inverse model for calculating tissue optical properties. Part I: Theory and validation on synthetic phantoms

GM Palmer, N Ramanujam - Applied optics, 2006 - opg.optica.org
A flexible and fast Monte Carlo-based model of diffuse reflectance has been developed for
the extraction of the absorption and scattering properties of turbid media, such as human …

Diagnosis of breast cancer using fluorescence and diffuse reflectance spectroscopy: a Monte-Carlo-model-based approach

C Zhu, GM Palmer, TM Breslin, J Harter… - … of biomedical optics, 2008 - spiedigitallibrary.org
We explore the use of Monte-Carlo-model-based approaches for the analysis of
fluorescence and diffuse reflectance spectra measured ex vivo from breast tissues. These …

Determination of optical parameters of human breast tissue from spatially resolved fluorescence: a diffusion theory model

MS Nair, N Ghosh, NS Raju, A Pradhan - Applied optics, 2002 - opg.optica.org
We report the measurement of optical transport parameters of pathologically characterized
malignant tissues, normal tissues, and different types of benign tumors of the human breast …

Inverse Monte Carlo method in a multilayered tissue model for diffuse reflectance spectroscopy

I Fredriksson, M Larsson… - Journal of biomedical …, 2012 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Model based data analysis of diffuse reflectance spectroscopy data enables the estimation
of optical and structural tissue parameters. The aim of this study was to present an inverse …

A Robust Monte Carlo Model for the Extraction of Biological Absorption and Scattering In Vivo

JE Bender, K Vishwanath, LK Moore… - IEEE transactions on …, 2008 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We have a toolbox to quantify tissue optical properties that is composed of specialized
fiberoptic probes for UV-visible diffuse reflectance spectroscopy and a fast, scalable inverse …

Optical properties of normal and diseased human breast tissues in the visible and near infrared

VG Peters, DR Wyman, MS Patterson… - Physics in Medicine & …, 1990 - iopscience.iop.org
The optical absorption and scattering coefficients have been determined for specimens of
normal and diseased human breast tissues over the range of wavelengths from 500 to 1100 …

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 …

Inverse hybrid technique for determining the optical properties of turbid media from integrating-sphere measurements

IV Yaroslavsky, AN Yaroslavsky, T Goldbach… - Applied Optics, 1996 - opg.optica.org
We have combined the Monte Carlo method with the small-angle approximation of the
radiative transfer theory to derive the optical properties (the absorption coefficient, the …

Determination of tissue optical properties from diffuse reflectance profiles by multivariate calibration

JS Dam, PE Andersen, T Dalgaard, PE Fabricius - Applied optics, 1998 - opg.optica.org
We describe a method for determining the reduced scattering and absorption coefficients of
turbid biological media from the spatially resolved diffuse reflectance. A Sugeno Fuzzy …