Free-space propagation of diffuse light: theory and experiments

Jorge Ripoll; Ralf B Schulz; Vasilis Ntziachristos

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.103901

Free-space propagation of diffuse light: theory and experiments

Phys Rev Lett. 2003 Sep 5;91(10):103901. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.103901. Epub 2003 Sep 2.

Authors

Jorge Ripoll¹, Ralf B Schulz, Vasilis Ntziachristos

Affiliation

¹ Institute for Electronic Structure and Laser, Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas, P.O. Box 1527, 71110 Heraklion, Greece.

PMID: 14525478
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.103901

Abstract

In this Letter we present a simple and novel theoretical approach for modeling the intensity distribution from an arbitrarily shaped turbid volume in a noncontact geometry by considering diffuse light propagation in free space. This theory is validated with experiments for a diffusive volume of known geometry in a noncontact situation, both with and without the presence of an embedded absorber. The implications of this new formulation in the context of optical tomography in turbid media are discussed.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

MeSH terms

Diffusion
Image Processing, Computer-Assisted / methods*
Light
Models, Theoretical*
Optics and Photonics*
Tomography / methods

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