Title :
Designing optical waveguides for clinical diagnostics in layered tissues: experimental testing with tissue phantoms
Author :
Valenzuela, John R. ; Vishwanath, Karthik ; Mycek, Mary-Ann
Author_Institution :
Appl. Phys. Program, Michigan Univ., Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Abstract :
Phantoms that simulate tissue optical response are useful for optimizing instruments for clinical laser diagnostics and for validating photon-migration models. A novel bi-layered tissue phantom is developed and tested using clinically-compatible fiber-optic probe designs.
Keywords :
biological tissues; fibre optic sensors; laser applications in medicine; optical design techniques; phantoms; clinical laser diagnostics; optical waveguide design; photon-migration models; tissue phantoms; Biomedical optical imaging; Fluorescence; Imaging phantoms; Optical design; Optical fiber testing; Optical fibers; Optical scattering; Optical waveguides; Probes; Solids;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2004. LEOS 2004. The 17th Annual Meeting of the IEEE
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8557-8
DOI :
10.1109/LEOS.2004.1363496
