Abstract
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 tissues. This method is valid for a wide range of optical properties and is easily adaptable to existing probe geometries, provided a single phantom calibration measurement is made. A condensed Monte Carlo method was used to speed up the forward simulations. This model was validated by use of two sets of liquid-tissue phantoms containing Nigrosin or hemoglobin as absorbers and polystyrene spheres as scatterers. The phantoms had a wide range of absorption and reduced scattering coefficients . Mie theory and a spectrophotometer were used to determine the absorption and reduced scattering coefficients of the phantoms. The diffuse reflectance spectra of the phantoms were measured over a wavelength range of . It was found that optical properties could be extracted from the experimentally measured diffuse reflectance spectra with an average error of or less for phantoms containing hemoglobin and or less for phantoms containing Nigrosin.
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Gregory M. Palmer and Nirmala Ramanujam, "Monte Carlo-based inverse model for calculating tissue optical properties. Part I: Theory and validation on synthetic phantoms: erratum," Appl. Opt. 46, 6847-6847 (2007)https://opg.optica.org/ao/abstract.cfm?uri=ao-46-27-6847
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