Steady-state total diffuse reflectance with an exponential decaying source Articles uri icon

authors

  • Symvoulidis, Panagiotis
  • Jentoft, Karin M.
  • Garcia-Allende, P. Beatriz
  • Glatz, Jürgen
  • RIPOLL LORENZO, JORGE
  • Ntziachristos, Vasilis

publication date

  • June 2014

start page

  • 3919

end page

  • 3922

issue

  • 13

volume

  • 39

International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)

  • 0146-9592

Electronic International Standard Serial Number (EISSN)

  • 1539-4794

abstract

  • The increasing preclinical and clinical utilization of digital cameras for photographic measurements of tissue conditions motivates the study of reflectance measurements obtained with planar illumination. We examine herein a formula that models the total diffuse reflectance measured from a semi-infinite medium using an exponentially decaying source, assuming continuous plane wave epi-illumination. The model is validated with experimental reflectance measurements from tissue mimicking phantoms. The need for adjusting the blood absorption spectrum due to pigment packaging is discussed along with the potential applications of the proposed formulation.

subjects

  • Medicine
  • Optics

keywords

  • light propagation in tissues; multispectral and hyperspectral imaging; tissue characterization