Determination of the concentration scaling law of the scattering coefficient of water solutions of Intralipid at 832 nm by comparison between collimated detection measurements and Monte Carlo simulations
✍ Scribed by Maddalena Autiero; Raffaele Liuzzi; Patrizia Riccio; Giuseppe Roberti
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2005
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 161 KB
- Volume
- 36
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0196-8092
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✦ Synopsis
Abstract
Background and Objectives
Intralipid (IP) is a scatterer extensively used in the building of phantoms for Biomedical Optics measurements. Recently, deviations from the linearity have been shown for the concentration scaling law of the scattering coefficient of IP water solutions at visible wavelengths. In this work this scaling law was determined at 832 nm.
Study Design/Materials and Methods
Space resolved transmittance measurements of a laser beam at 832 nm through water solutions of IP and ink were performed and compared with the corresponding results of Monte Carlo simulations.
Results
The comparison provides a quadratic dependence of μ on the volume‐to‐volume scatterer concentration, C~IP~, in the range of C~IP~ values (0.0024<C~IP~<0.0075). These deviations from the linear behavior are related to the failure of the independent scatterer approximation.
Conclusion
The quadratic dependence of on C~IP~ is in agreement with recent results obtained by other groups with different experimental techniques and is validated by a recent theoretical work. © 2005 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.