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Tissue Optics

  • Luís Manuel Couto Oliveira
  • Valery Victorovich Tuchin
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Abstract

Light interaction with biological materials depends on the material’s optical properties. From those properties, the absorption and scattering coefficients are the most important, since they quantify how much of a light beam is attenuated when traveling inside a tissue. The scattering coefficient is known to be significantly higher than the absorption coefficient in biological materials, meaning that most of the light is scattered, turning optical methods in clinical practice limited. Such difference between the scattering and absorption coefficients is mainly due to a refractive index mismatch between tissue components and fluids. We explain this concept in the present chapter before introducing the technique that efficiently minimizes this effect in the following chapters.

Keywords

Absorption coefficient Scattering coefficient Anisotropy factor Reduced scattering coefficient Light attenuation Light penetration depth Refractive index mismatch 
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Luís Manuel Couto Oliveira
    • 1
  • Valery Victorovich Tuchin
    • 2
    • 3
    • 4
    • 5
  1. 1.Physics Department and Center for Innovation in Engineering and Industrial TechnologyPolytechnic Institute of Porto – School of EngineeringPortoPortugal
  2. 2.Department of Optics and BiophotonicsSaratov State UniversitySaratovRussia
  3. 3.Institute of Precision Mechanics and Control of the RASSaratovRussia
  4. 4.Bach Institute of BiochemistryResearch Center of Biotechnology of the RASMoscowRussia
  5. 5.Tomsk State University, Tomsk & ITMO UniversitySt. PetersburgRussia

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