Estimating the average breast optical properties from transmission measurements despite intrinsic tissue heterogeneity: a Monte Carlo Simulation Study

Quan Zhang; Jonathan J. Stott; Thomas J. Brukilacchio; Ang Li; Tina Chaves; Anand Kumar; Tao Wu; MaryAnn Chorlton; Elizabeth Rafferty; Richard H. Moore; Daniel B. Kopans; David A. Boas

doi:10.1364/BIO.2004.ThF39

Biomedical Topical Meeting
OSA Technical Digest (Optica Publishing Group, 2004),
paper ThF39
•https://doi.org/10.1364/BIO.2004.ThF39

Estimating the average breast optical properties from transmission measurements despite intrinsic tissue heterogeneity: a Monte Carlo Simulation Study

Quan Zhang, Jonathan J. Stott, Thomas J. Brukilacchio, Ang Li, Tina Chaves, Anand Kumar, Tao Wu, MaryAnn Chorlton, Elizabeth Rafferty, Richard H. Moore, Daniel B. Kopans, and David A. Boas

Biomedical Topical Meeting 2004

Miami Beach, Florida United States
14–17 April 2004
ISBN: 1-55752-769-5

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Q. Zhang, J. J. Stott, T. J. Brukilacchio, A. Li, T. Chaves, A. Kumar, T. Wu, M. Chorlton, E. Rafferty, R. H. Moore, D. B. Kopans, and D. A. Boas, "Estimating the average breast optical properties from transmission measurements despite intrinsic tissue heterogeneity: a Monte Carlo Simulation Study," in Biomedical Topical Meeting, OSA Technical Digest (Optica Publishing Group, 2004), paper ThF39.

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Abstract

To estimate the average optical properties of a heterogeneous medium, simulations show that multi-distance methods assuming homogeneous structure suffer from systematic modeling errors while single source-detector pair methods provides a more meaningful estimate.

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