Spectral transillumination of female breasts and breast tissue-like material

Hans Heusmann; Jochen G. Koelzer; Johann Otto; Ralf Puls; T. Friedrich; Sylvia Heywang-Koebrunner; Wolfgang Zinth

doi:10.1117/12.200840

31 January 1995 Spectral transillumination of female breasts and breast tissue-like material

Hans Heusmann, Jochen G. Koelzer, Johann Otto, Ralf Puls, T. Friedrich, Sylvia Heywang-Koebrunner, Wolfgang Zinth

Proceedings Volume 2326, Photon Transport in Highly Scattering Tissue; (1995) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.200840
Event: International Symposium on Biomedical Optics Europe '94, 1994, Lille, France

Abstract

Several types of tissue-like materials, animal tissues and human breast tissues in vitro, have been measured by a photospectrometer at visible and near-infrared wavelengths (between approximately 500 and 1100 nm) with the aim of correlating the dominant spectral features. In the clinical part of this work female volunteers of different age with various thicknesses of breast tissue at different sites were transilluminated spectroscopically in vivo in this diagnostic window. In addition, phantom experiments have been conducted to answer the question of how sensitively absorbing objects hidden inside a turbid medium several centimeters thick may be identified from their spectral signature. On the basis of these results it may be possible to improve the detectability of breast lesions, for example tumors, by a spectral transillumination technique.

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Hans Heusmann, Jochen G. Koelzer, Johann Otto, Ralf Puls, T. Friedrich, Sylvia Heywang-Koebrunner, and Wolfgang Zinth "Spectral transillumination of female breasts and breast tissue-like material", Proc. SPIE 2326, Photon Transport in Highly Scattering Tissue, (31 January 1995); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.200840

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