title: Performance assessment of photon migration instruments: the MEDPHOT protocol.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: 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
authors.forename: Antonio
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Pifferi
authors.forename: Alessandro
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Torricelli
authors.forename: Andrea
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bassi
authors.forename: Paola
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Taroni
authors.forename: Rinaldo
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Cubeddu
authors.forename: Heidrun
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Wabnitz
authors.forename: Dirk
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Grosenick
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Möller
authors.forename: Rainer
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Macdonald
authors.forename: Johannes
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Swartling
authors.forename: Tomas
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Svensson
authors.forename: Stefan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Andersson-Engels
authors.forename: Robert L P
authors.initials: RL
authors.lastname: van Veen
authors.forename: Henricus J C M
authors.initials: HJ
authors.lastname: Sterenborg
authors.forename: Jean-Michel
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Tualle
authors.forename: Ha Lien
authors.initials: HL
authors.lastname: Nghiem
authors.forename: Sigrid
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Avrillier
authors.forename: Maurice
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Whelan
authors.forename: Hermann
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Stamm
mesh_terms: 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