Abstract

Diffuse light is emerging as a useful research tool to probe highly scattering tissues. A critical advance in the field has been the recognition and widespread acceptance that light transport over long distances in tissues is well approximated as a diffusive process. Using this basic physical model, it is possible to quantitatively separate tissue scattering effects from tissue absorption effects. I will discuss some of the research we have been doing with the highly scattered light. In particular I will describe how we are using diffuse light temporal correlation to learn about physiological properties of tissues.

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