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Optical technologies in biophysics and medicine

Using late arriving photons for diffuse optical tomography of biological objects

S. G. Proskurin

Tambov State Technical University

Abstract: The issues of detecting the inhomogeneities are studied aimed at mapping the distribution of absorption and scattering in soft tissues. A modification of the method of diffuse optical tomography is proposed for detecting directly and determining the region of spatial localisation of such absorbing and scattering inhomogeneities as a cyst, a hematoma, a tumour, as well as for measuring the degree of oxygenation or deoxygenation of blood, in which the late arriving photons that diffuse through the scattering object are used.

PACS: 87.64.Cc, 87.63.L-, 42.30.Wb

Received: 25.02.2011
Revised: 22.03.2011

 English version: Quantum Electronics, 2011, 41:5, 402–406

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