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Fabrication and Characterization of Optical Tissue Phantoms Containing Macrostructure
Published on: February 12, 2018
Optical properties of biological tissues: a review
1Department of Biomedical Engineering, Oregon Health Science University, 3303 SW Bond Ave, Portland, OR 97239, USA. jacquess@ohsu.edu
Abstract:
A review of reported tissue optical properties summarizes the wavelength-dependent behavior of scattering and absorption. Formulae are presented for generating the optical properties of a generic tissue with variable amounts of absorbing chromophores (blood, water, melanin, fat, yellow pigments) and a variable balance between small-scale scatterers and large-scale scatterers in the ultrastructures of cells and tissues.
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