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Laser applications in medicine

Analysis of distortions in the velocity profiles of suspension flows inside a light-scattering medium upon their reconstruction from the optical coherence Doppler tomograph signal

A. V. Bykov^a, M. Yu. Kirillin^a, A. V. Priezzhev<sup>ab

a</sup> Lomonosov Moscow State University, Faculty of Physics
^b International Laser Center of Moscow State University

Abstract: Model signals from one and two plane flows of a particle suspension are obtained for an optical coherence Doppler tomograph (OCDT) by the Monte-Carlo method. The optical properties of particles mimic the properties of non-aggregating erythrocytes. The flows are considered in a stationary scattering medium with optical properties close to those of the skin. It is shown that, as the flow position depth increases, the flow velocity determined from the OCDT signal becomes smaller than the specified velocity and the reconstructed profile extends in the direction of the distant boundary, which is accompanied by the shift of its maximum. In the case of two flows, an increase in the velocity of the near-surface flow leads to the overestimated values of velocity of the reconstructed profile of the second flow. Numerical simulations were performed by using a multiprocessor parallel-architecture computer.

PACS: 42.25.Fx, 42.25.Kb, 42.30.Wb

Received: 05.07.2005

 English version: Quantum Electronics, 2005, 35:11, 1079–1082

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