title: Method to measure the optical properties of small volumes of diffusive media.
abstract: The method consists of measuring the perturbation provoked by a small volume of the diffusive medium on light propagating through a medium of known optical properties. The absorption and the reduced scattering coefficients of the medium are retrieved from multidistance continuous-wave measurements of transmittance. The inversion procedure is based on the solution of the diffusion equation obtained with a perturbative approach. The method has been validated with Monte Carlo results. Examples of experimental results are reported.
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Universté degli Studi di Firenze and the Istituto Nazionale per la Fisica della Materia, Via G. Sansone 1, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Firenze, Italy.
authors.forename: Giovanni
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Zaccanti
authors.forename: Fabrizio
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Martelli
authors.forename: Samuele
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Del Bianco
mesh_terms: D004058:Diffusion; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D055095:Optics and Photonics