In this article, we briefly described a time-correlated single photon counting (TCSPC) system specifically designed for
extracting the optical properties in turbid medium. This system was evaluated by use of two sets of liquid
tissue-simulating phantoms containing different concentrations of Intralipid-10% as scatters and India ink as absorbers.
With the distribution of times of flight (DTOF) of photons measured by the TCSPC system, some featured parameters,
such as the mean time of flight and the variance of DTOF were calculated. Based on these parameters, we developed a
simple and fast method to obtain the absorption coefficient &mgr;a and reduced scattering coefficient &mgr;s' of the turbid medium.
Furthermore, the accuracy of the method was validated using the Monte Carlo simulations. It was found that the optical
properties could be extracted with this method, which was much faster than the conventional curve-fitting procedure.
Our method could be useful in on-line monitoring of optical properties and of the oxygen saturation (SaO2) in forearm
muscle.
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