title: Optical properties of biological tissues: a review.
abstract: A review of reported tissue optical properties summarizes the wavelength-dependent behavior of scattering and absorption. Formulae are presented for generating the optical properties of a generic tissue with variable amounts of absorbing chromophores (blood, water, melanin, fat, yellow pigments) and a variable balance between small-scale scatterers and large-scale scatterers in the ultrastructures of cells and tissues.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biomedical Engineering, Oregon Health Science University, 3303 SW Bond Ave, Portland, OR 97239, USA. jacquess@ohsu.edu
authors.forename: Steven L
authors.initials: SL
authors.lastname: Jacques
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D016880:Anisotropy; D001695:Biology / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D055620:Optical Phenomena