Performance assessment of photon migration instruments: the MEDPHOT protocol.
We propose a comprehensive protocol for the performance assessment of photon migration instruments. The protocol has been developed within the European Thematic Network MEDPHOT (optical methods for medical diagnosis and monitoring of diseases) and is based on five criteria: accuracy, linearity, noise, stability, and reproducibility. This protocol was applied to a total of 8 instruments with a set of 32 phantoms, covering a wide range of optical properties.
Pifferi
Antonio
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Laboratorio Nazionale per l'Ottica Ultra-rapida e Ultra-intensa, Dipartimento di Fisica e Istituto di Fotonicae Nanotecnologie, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Politecnico di Milano, I-20133 Milan, Italy. antonio.pifferi@fisi.polimi.it
Torricelli
Alessandro
A
Bassi
Andrea
A
Taroni
Paola
P
Cubeddu
Rinaldo
R
Wabnitz
Heidrun
H
Grosenick
Dirk
D
Möller
Michael
M
Macdonald
Rainer
R
Swartling
Johannes
J
Svensson
Tomas
T
Andersson-Engels
Stefan
S
van Veen
Robert L P
RL
Sterenborg
Henricus J C M
HJ
Tualle
Jean-Michel
JM
Nghiem
Ha Lien
HL
Avrillier
Sigrid
S
Whelan
Maurice
M
Stamm
Hermann
H
D019985:Benchmarking / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards; D019544:Equipment Failure Analysis / Q000379:methods* / Q000592:standards; D017408:Guidelines as Topic; D019047:Phantoms, Imaging; D010783:Photometry / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000592:standards; D017785:Photons; D011874:Radiometry / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000592:standards; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D013053:Spectrophotometry / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods; D041623:Tomography, Optical Coherence / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods