Propagation properties of 1300-nm light in blood-saline mixtures determined through optical coherence tomography

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6864, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Popescu, Dan P ^a   Schattka, Bernhard ^a   Hewko, Mark D ^a   Friesen, Jeri ^a   Sowa, Michael G ^a  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Blood; Blood cells; Blood saline mixtures; Light propagation; Monte Carlo; Multiple scattering of light; Optical coherence tomography; Signal attenuation

Indexed keywords

BLOOD; COHERENT LIGHT; COSMIC RAY DETECTORS; CRACK PROPAGATION; DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; LIGHT SCATTERING; MEDICAL IMAGING; MIXTURES; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; REFRACTION; SCATTERING; THERMOGRAPHY (TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT); TOMOGRAPHY;

BIO-MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; BLOOD CONCENTRATIONS; CLINICAL APPLICATIONS; COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; FLOWING BLOOD; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION (MCS); OPTICAL-COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY (OCT); PROPAGATION PROPERTIES; SCATTERING COEFFICIENTS; SCATTERING PROPERTIES;

IMAGING TECHNIQUES;

EID: 42149110273     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.764074     Document Type: Conference Paper

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