Characterization of homogeneous tissue phantoms for performance tests in diffuse optics

Heidrun Wabnitz; Dieter Richard Taubert; Tsukasa Funane; Masashi Kiguchi; Hideo Eda; Antonio Pifferi; Alessandro Torricelli; Rainer Macdonald

doi:10.1117/12.2209038

18 March 2016 Characterization of homogeneous tissue phantoms for performance tests in diffuse optics

Heidrun Wabnitz, Dieter Richard Taubert, Tsukasa Funane, Masashi Kiguchi, Hideo Eda, Antonio Pifferi, Alessandro Torricelli, Rainer Macdonald

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Proceedings Volume 9700, Design and Quality for Biomedical Technologies IX; 970004 (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2209038
Event: SPIE BiOS, 2016, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

Solid homogeneous turbid phantoms can be employed to mimic the attenuation and angular distribution of light emerging from tissue, e.g., to assess the responsivity of the detection system of diffuse optics instrumentation and to support standardized performance tests of functional near-infrared spectroscopy devices. We present three methods to quantify the wavelength-dependent diffuse transmittance, relying on (1) measurement of radiance exiting the phantom by a detector far from the exit aperture, (2) simple recording of radiance by a power meter close to the exit aperture and correction for the finite distance between phantom surface and detector, (3) determination of the reduced scattering and absorption coefficients by time-resolved diffuse transmittance measurements and forward calculation of the time-integrated diffuse transmittance based on the diffusion model. The implications of the different approximations related to these approaches are discussed. The various methods were applied to characterize solid slab phantoms, and the results were compared. Specifically, for an epoxy-resin based phantom having a thickness of 2 cm, a reduced scattering coefficient of about 0.5/mm and an absorption coefficient of about 0.01/mm, the diffuse transmittance values obtained by the three different methods were found to agree within about 10%.

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Heidrun Wabnitz, Dieter Richard Taubert, Tsukasa Funane, Masashi Kiguchi, Hideo Eda, Antonio Pifferi, Alessandro Torricelli, and Rainer Macdonald "Characterization of homogeneous tissue phantoms for performance tests in diffuse optics", Proc. SPIE 9700, Design and Quality for Biomedical Technologies IX, 970004 (18 March 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2209038

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