Title :
Optical measurement of water content in tissue
Author :
Nakamura, Yuichi ; Pilt, Kristjan ; Kakuta, Naoto ; Arimoto, Hidenobu ; Yamada, Yukio
Author_Institution :
Univ. of Electro-Commun., Chofu, Japan
Abstract :
It is necessary for more appropriate hemodialysis treatment to know water content in tissue. We measured water content of Intralipid-20% solution, which has similar optical properties to those of tissue, and showed the possibility to measure the water content in tissue in vivo.
Keywords :
bio-optics; biochemistry; biological tissues; biomedical measurement; diseases; infrared spectra; kidney; patient treatment; Intralipid optical property; Intralipid water content; hemodialysis treatment; optical measurement; tissue optical property; tissue water content measurement;
Conference_Titel :
Biophotonics, 2004. APBP 2004. The Second Asian and Pacific Rim Symposium on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8676-0
DOI :
10.1109/APBP.2004.1412334
