Fiber optic probes are a key element for biomedical spectroscopic sensing. We review the
use of fiber optic probes for optical spectroscopy, focusing on applications in turbid media …

Oblique incidence reflectometry is a simple and accurate method for measuring the
absorption and the reduced-scattering coefficients of turbid media. We used this technique …

Optical technologies, in particular fluorescence spectroscopy, have shown the potential to
provide improved detection methods for cervical neoplasia that are sensitive and cost …

Light distributions in biological tissues are summarized in simple expressions for sphewrical,
cylindrical and planar geometries due to point sources, line sources and planar sources …

Optical technologies, such as reflectance and fluorescence spectroscopy, have shown the
potential to provide improved point-of-care detection methods for cervical neoplasia that are …

Intralipid is widely used as an optical scattering agent in tissue-mimicking phantoms.
Accurate control when using Intralipid is critical to match the optical diffusivity of phantoms to …

Methods and apparatus for performing fluorescence and spatially resolved reflectance
spectroscopy on a sample. A sample is irradiated with a fluorescence excitation fiber and …

Monte Carlo simulations and experiments in tissue phantoms were used to empirically
develop an analytical model that characterizes the reflectance spectrum in a turbid medium …

To estimate the concentrations of melanin and blood and the oxygen saturation in human
skin tissue, we propose a method using a multiple regression analysis aided by a Monte …

We investigate the feasibility of obtaining accurate quantitative information, such as local
blood oxygenation level (sO 2), with a spatial resolution of about 50 µm from spectral …