Comparison of tissue optical properties for localized and homogeneous model of light absorption by blood

Author

Barun, V.V. ; Ivanov, A.P.

Author_Institution

Inst. of Phys., Belarus Nat. Acad. of Sci., Minsk, Belarus

Volume

2

fYear

2003

fDate

15-19 Dec. 2003

Abstract

Optical absorption characteristics of multicomponent biological tissues are studied and compared for two cases, namely, for homogeneous and discrete localization of the absorbers. The known calculation procedure is essentially simplified by replacing cylindrical blood vessels with parallelepipedal ones to enable us to reduce the problem to simple single integration. The comparison of the two computation methods shows their excellent agreement. The effects of localized absorbers are discussed as applied to light and heat transfer through biological tissues. The proposed procedure is useful to study optical characteristics of a composite medium containing absorbing, large enough inclusions of any shapes.

Keywords

bio-optics; blood; blood vessels; light absorption; absorption coefficient; blood; computation methods; cylindrical blood vessels; discrete localization; heat transfer; homogeneous localization; homogeneous model; inclusions; light absorption; localized absorbers; localized model; multicomponent biological tissues; optical absorption characteristics; parallelepipedal ones; tissue optical properties; Biological system modeling; Biological tissues; Biomedical imaging; Biomedical optical imaging; Blood vessels; Electromagnetic wave absorption; Light scattering; Optical scattering; Physics; Shape;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2003. CLEO/Pacific Rim 2003. The 5th Pacific Rim Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7766-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEOPR.2003.1277133

Filename

1277133