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 …

Optical properties of human dermis in vitro and in vivo

R Graaff, ACM Dassel, MH Koelink, FFM De Mul… - Applied …, 1993 - opg.optica.org
Condensed Monte Carlo simulation results have been used for calculating absorption and
reduced scattering coefficients from the literature data on the measured total transmittance …

Predictions and measurements of scattering and absorption over broad wavelength ranges in tissue phantoms

JR Mourant, T Fuselier, J Boyer, TM Johnson… - Applied optics, 1997 - opg.optica.org
Predictions from Mie theory regarding the wavelength dependence of scattering in tissue
from the near UV to the near IR are discussed and compared with experiments on tissue …

Optical properties of in vitro epidermis and their possible relationship with optical properties of in vivo skin

R Marchesini, C Clemente, E Pignoli… - Journal of Photochemistry …, 1992 - Elsevier
Using a spectrophotometer with an internal integrating sphere, the absorption (μ a) and
reduced scattering (μ s′) coefficients of in vitro epidermis were evaluated from reflectance …

Near-infrared optical properties of ex vivo human skin and subcutaneous tissues measured using the Monte Carlo inversion technique

CR Simpson, M Kohl, M Essenpreis… - Physics in Medicine & …, 1998 - iopscience.iop.org
The absorption and transport scattering coefficients of caucasian and negroid dermis,
subdermal fat and muscle have been measured for all wavelengths between 620 and 1000 …

Origins of tissue optical properties in the UVA, visible, and NIR regions

SL Jacques - Advances in optical imaging and photon migration, 1996 - opg.optica.org
This paper describes the relationship between the ultrastructure of biological tissues and the
observed macroscopic optical scattering properties. A summary of the tissue absorption …

Optical properties of human skin

T Lister, PA Wright, PH Chappell - Journal of biomedical optics, 2012 - spiedigitallibrary.org
A survey of the literature is presented that provides an analysis of the optical properties of
human skin, with particular regard to their applications in medicine. Included is a description …

Approximation of Mie scattering parameters <?xpp qa?>in near-infrared tomography of normal<?xpp qa?> breast tissue in vivo

X Wang, BW Pogue, S Jiang, X Song… - … of biomedical optics, 2005 - spiedigitallibrary.org
A method for estimating Mie theory scattering parameters from diffuse light tomography
measurements in breast tissue is discussed. The approach provides an estimate of the …

Light scattering spectroscopy of human skin in vivo

G Zonios, A Dimou - Optics Express, 2009 - opg.optica.org
We present an in vivo study of the reduced scattering coefficient of normal skin and of
common melanocytic nevi in Caucasian subjects. The spectral shape of the reduced …

Anisotropy of light propagation in human skin

S Nickell, M Hermann, M Essenpreis… - Physics in Medicine …, 2000 - iopscience.iop.org
Using spatially resolved, steady state diffuse reflectometry, a directional dependence was
found in the propagation of visible and near infrared light through human skin in vivo. The …