Prof. Miguel E. de Jesus Profile

Prof. Miguel E. de Jesus

at Univ da Beira Interior

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Proceedings Article | 17 July 2007 Paper

Estimation of biomedical optical properties by simultaneous use of diffuse reflectometry and photothermal radiometry: investigation of light propagation models

E. S. Fonseca, M. E. de Jesus

Proceedings Volume 6631, 66310C (2007) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.728251

KEYWORDS: Scattering, Absorption, Monte Carlo methods, Diffuse reflectance spectroscopy, Diffusion, Anisotropy, Tissue optics, Biomedical optics, Light scattering, Optical properties

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The estimation of optical properties of highly turbid and opaque biological tissue is a difficult task since conventional purely optical methods rapidly loose sensitivity as the mean photon path length decreases. Photothermal methods, such as pulsed or frequency domain photothermal radiometry (FD-PTR), on the other hand, show remarkable sensitivity in experimental conditions that produce very feeble optical signals. Photothermal Radiometry is primarily sensitive to absorption coefficient yielding considerably higher estimation errors on scattering coefficients. Conversely, purely optical methods such as Local Diffuse Reflectance (LDR) depend mainly on the scattering coefficient and yield much better estimates of this parameter. Therefore, at moderate transport albedos, the combination of photothermal and reflectance methods can improve considerably the sensitivity of detection of tissue optical properties. The authors have recently proposed a novel method that combines FD-PTR with LDR, aimed at improving sensitivity on the determination of both optical properties. Signal analysis was performed by global fitting the experimental data to forward models based on Monte-Carlo simulations. Although this approach is accurate, the associated computational burden often limits its use as a forward model. Therefore, the application of analytical models based on the diffusion approximation offers a faster alternative. In this work, we propose the calculation of the diffuse reflectance and the fluence rate profiles under the δ-P₁ approximation. This approach is known to approximate fluence rate expressions better close to collimated sources and boundaries than the standard diffusion approximation (SDA). We extend this study to the calculation of the diffuse reflectance profiles. The ability of the δ-P₁ based model to provide good estimates of the absorption, scattering and anisotropy coefficients is tested against Monte-Carlo simulations over a wide range of scattering to absorption ratios. Experimental validation of the proposed method is accomplished by a set of measurements on solid absorbing and scattering phantoms.

Proceedings Article | 1 March 2006 Paper

Combined photothermal-photometric method for the determination of tissue optical properties

E. S. R. Fonseca, M. E. P. de Jesus

Proceedings Volume 6084, 60840N (2006) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.644120

KEYWORDS: Absorption, Scattering, Monte Carlo methods, Diffuse reflectance spectroscopy, Diffusion, Tissue optics, Optical properties, Epoxies, Signal detection, Modulation

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