scholarly journals In-vivo multilaboratory investigation of the optical properties of the human head

2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (7) ◽  
pp. 2609 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Farina ◽  
Alessandro Torricelli ◽  
Ilaria Bargigia ◽  
Lorenzo Spinelli ◽  
Rinaldo Cubeddu ◽  
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2015 ◽  
Vol 08 (03) ◽  
pp. 1541005 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. S. Wróbel ◽  
A. P. Popov ◽  
A. V. Bykov ◽  
M. Kinnunen ◽  
M. Jędrzejewska-Szczerska ◽  
...  

Extensive research in the area of optical sensing for medical diagnostics requires development of tissue phantoms with optical properties similar to those of living human tissues. Development and improvement of in vivo optical measurement systems requires the use of stable tissue phantoms with known characteristics, which are mainly used for calibration of such systems and testing their performance over time. Optical and mechanical properties of phantoms depend on their purpose. Nevertheless, they must accurately simulate specific tissues they are supposed to mimic. Many tissues and organs including head possess a multi-layered structure, with specific optical properties of each layer. However, such a structure is not always addressed in the present-day phantoms. In this paper, we focus on the development of a plain-parallel multi-layered phantom with optical properties (reduced scattering coefficient [Formula: see text] and absorption coefficient μa) corresponding to the human head layers, such as skin, skull, and gray and white matter of the brain tissue. The phantom is intended for use in noninvasive diffuse near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) of human brain. Optical parameters of the fabricated phantoms are reconstructed using spectrophotometry and inverse adding-doubling calculation method. The results show that polyvinyl chloride-plastisol (PVCP) and zinc oxide ( ZnO ) nanoparticles are suitable materials for fabrication of tissue mimicking phantoms with controlled scattering properties. Good matching was found between optical properties of phantoms and the corresponding values found in the literature.


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Brett H. Hokr ◽  
Joel N. Bixler

AbstractDynamic, in vivo measurement of the optical properties of biological tissues is still an elusive and critically important problem. Here we develop a technique for inverting a Monte Carlo simulation to extract tissue optical properties from the statistical moments of the spatio-temporal response of the tissue by training a 5-layer fully connected neural network. We demonstrate the accuracy of the method across a very wide parameter space on a single homogeneous layer tissue model and demonstrate that the method is insensitive to parameter selection of the neural network model itself. Finally, we propose an experimental setup capable of measuring the required information in real time in an in vivo environment and demonstrate proof-of-concept level experimental results.


2001 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexey N. Bashkatov ◽  
Elina A. Genina ◽  
Irina V. Korovina ◽  
Yurii P. Sinichkin ◽  
Olga V. Novikova ◽  
...  

Author(s):  
M. S. Chafi ◽  
V. Dirisala ◽  
G. Karami ◽  
M. Ziejewski

In the central nervous system, the subarachnoid space is the interval between the arachnoid membrane and the pia mater. It is filled with a clear, watery liquid called cerebrospinal fluid (CSF). The CSF buffers the brain against mechanical shocks and creates buoyancy to protect it from the forces of gravity. The relative motion of the brain due to a simultaneous loading is caused because the skull and brain have different densities and the CSF surrounds the brain. The impact experiments are usually carried out on cadavers with no CSF included because of the autolysis. Even in the cadaveric head impact experiments by Hardy et al. [1], where the specimens are repressurized using artificial CSF, this is not known how far this can replicate the real functionality of CSF. With such motivation, a special interest lies on how to model this feature in a finite element (FE) modeling of the human head because it is questionable if one uses in vivo CSF properties (i.e. bulk modulus of 2.19 GPa) to validate a FE human head against cadaveric experimental data.


1997 ◽  
Vol 147 (1) ◽  
pp. 86 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qun Chen ◽  
Brian C. Wilson ◽  
Sugandh D. Shetty ◽  
Michael S. Patterson ◽  
Joseph C. Cerny ◽  
...  

2000 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. L. Kopsombut ◽  
D. Willis ◽  
A. E. Schen ◽  
L. X. Xu ◽  
X. Xu

Abstract Along with rapid development of diagnostic and therapeutic applications of lasers in medicine, optical properties of various biological tissues have been extensively studied [1]. Most of the studies were performed in vitro owing to the complexity involved in in vivo measurement. To date, it is well understood that living tissue is an absorbing and scattering heterogeneous medium because of its complex structures including blood network. The transport theory cannot be readily used due to the heterogeneity and the absence of the optical properties of living tissues [2]. In this research, we have developed a procedure for measuring the total attenuation coefficient (μ1) of the exteriorized rat 2-D spinotrapezius muscle in the wavelength ranged from 480–560 nm using the collimated light from a Nitrogen-pumped dye laser and a high-sensitivity CCD camera.


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