Optical fiber device and biological tissue phantoms for determination of optical parameters in the near-infrared region

Instrumentation Science and Technology

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 489-505

  Do Nascimento, Omar Feix ^a   Villaverde, Antonio Balbin ^a   Zângaro, Renato Amaro ^a   Pacheco, Marcos Tadeu Tavares ^a   Durrant, Steven F ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE PESQUISA E DESENVOLVIMENTO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Absorption; Backscattering; Biological tissue phantoms; Near infrared; Optical tissue parameters; Scattering

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; ATTENUATION; BACKSCATTERING; BIOPSY; BLOOD; GLUCOSE; HEMOGLOBIN; INFRARED RADIATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MEDICAL IMAGING; TISSUE;

BIOLOGICAL TISSUE PHANTOMS; NEAR INFRARED; OPTICAL SIMULATIONS; OPTICAL TISSUE PARAMETERS;

OPTICAL FIBERS;

EID: 6344220344     PISSN: 10739149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1081/CI-200029758     Document Type: Article

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