Optical properties of biological tissues: a review
- 10 May 2013
- journal article
- review article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Physics in Medicine & Biology
- Vol. 58 (11), R37-R61
- https://doi.org/10.1088/0031-9155/58/11/r37
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.Keywords
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