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A review of the optical properties of biological tissues
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The known optical properties (absorption, scattering, total attenuation, effective attenuation and/or anisotropy coefficients) of various biological tissues at a variety of wavelengths are reviewed in this article.Abstract:
The known optical properties (absorption, scattering, total attenuation, effective attenuation, and/or anisotropy coefficients) of various biological tissues at a variety of wavelengths are reviewed. The theoretical foundations for most experimental approaches are outlined. Relations between Kubelka-Munk parameters and transport coefficients are listed. The optical properties of aorta, liver, and muscle at 633 nm are discussed in detail. An extensive bibliography is provided. >read more
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Light dosimetry: status and prospects.
TL;DR: In this article, it is shown that a two-flux model derived from the transport equation in the diffusion approximation resembles the Kubelka-Munk and other heuristic models and suggests their abandonment in favour of transport theory.
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Turbid Media with Plane-Parallel Surfaces*
TL;DR: In this paper, a new explanation is given based on refraction instead of imperfect diffusion as suggested in the literature, which is verified by a series of observations with two kinds of opal glasses.
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Interpretation of the Kubelka-Munk Coefficients in Reflection Theory
TL;DR: Two recent analyses of the reflectance problem now make it possible to interpret the Kubelka-Munk coefficients in terms of the more familiar scatter ing and absorption cross sections.
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Transport calculations for light scattering in blood.
TL;DR: In vivo measurement of the oxygen saturation levels in blood may be obtained from relative amounts of backscattered monochromatic light at two different wavelengths, as measured with a fiber-optic catheter oximeter, by a previously-derived, one-wavelength transport theory solution for the half-space searchlight problem.
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Comparing the P3-approximation with diffusion theory and with Monte Carlo calculations of light propagation in a slab geometry
TL;DR: In this article, the energy fluence rate in a slab of tissue has been calculated for a monodirectional and unpola- rized incident light beam of infinite diameter perpendicular to the tissue surface.