Stable tissue-simulating phantoms with various water and lipid contents for diffuse optical spectroscopy

Autor: Tetsuya Mimura, Hatsuko Nasu, Norihiro Suzuki, Etsuko Ohmae, Harumi Sakahara, Maho Hayashi, Yutaka Yamashita, Hiroko Wada, Nobuko Yoshizawa, Yukio Ueda, Hiroaki Suzuki, Kenji Yoshimoto, Hiroyuki Ogura, Shu Homma
Rok vydání: 2018
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Zdroj: Biomedical optics express. 9(11)
ISSN: 2156-7085
Popis: We introduced a method for producing solid phantoms with various water-to-lipid ratios that can simulate the absorption, and to some extent the scattering characteristics of human breast tissue. We also achieved phantom stability for a minimum of one month by solidifying the emulsion phantoms. The characteristics of the phantoms were evaluated using the six-wavelength time-domain diffuse optical spectroscopy (TD-DOS) system we developed to measure water and lipid contents and hemoglobin concentration. The TD-DOS measurements were validated with a magnetic resonance imaging system.
Databáze: OpenAIRE