An empirical formula based on Monte Carlo simulation for diffuse reflectance from turbid media

Einstein Gnanatheepam; Prakasa Rao Aruna; Singaravelu Ganesan

doi:10.1117/12.2213018

7 March 2016 An empirical formula based on Monte Carlo simulation for diffuse reflectance from turbid media

Einstein Gnanatheepam, Prakasa Rao Aruna, Singaravelu Ganesan

Proceedings Volume 9703, Optical Biopsy XIV: Toward Real-Time Spectroscopic Imaging and Diagnosis; 97031V (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2213018
Event: SPIE BiOS, 2016, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

Diffuse reflectance spectroscopy has been widely used in diagnostic oncology and characterization of laser irradiated tissue. However, still accurate and simple analytical equation does not exist for estimation of diffuse reflectance from turbid media. In this work, a diffuse reflectance lookup table for a range of tissue optical properties was generated using Monte Carlo simulation. Based on the generated Monte Carlo lookup table, an empirical formula for diffuse reflectance was developed using surface fitting method. The variance between the Monte Carlo lookup table surface and the surface obtained from the proposed empirical formula is less than 1%. The proposed empirical formula may be used for modeling of diffuse reflectance from tissue.

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Einstein Gnanatheepam, Prakasa Rao Aruna, and Singaravelu Ganesan "An empirical formula based on Monte Carlo simulation for diffuse reflectance from turbid media", Proc. SPIE 9703, Optical Biopsy XIV: Toward Real-Time Spectroscopic Imaging and Diagnosis, 97031V (7 March 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2213018

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