Paper
29 December 1997 Use of the polarization vector in modeling tissue fluorescence: theoretical and experimental comparison
Ourania Panou-Diamanti, Nikolaos K. Uzunoglou, A. Vasiliou, Giannis Zacharakis, George Filippidis, Theodore G. Papazoglou, Dimitrios Koutsouris
Author Affiliations +
Abstract
This paper describes an innovative approach to tissue fluorescence as a phenomenon of inelastic scattering of electromagnetic radiation. A general formulation of the polarization vector of the medium is used in order to describe the fluorescence inelastic scattering process. The general method described, is applied to two different tissue models. In the first model, tissue is represented as a single infinitely thick, homogeneous layer, under plane wave excitation. The second model used is based on a picture of tissue as a single dielectric layer, under pulse excitation. In both cases, fluorophores and absorbing species are assumed to be homogeneously distributed inside tissue. The mathematical techniques used together with the fully evaluated theoretical results are presented. Additionally, experimental measurements were performed on collagen gels which contained various dyes in order to evaluate and validate our mathematical modeling.
© (1997) COPYRIGHT Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE). Downloading of the abstract is permitted for personal use only.
Ourania Panou-Diamanti, Nikolaos K. Uzunoglou, A. Vasiliou, Giannis Zacharakis, George Filippidis, Theodore G. Papazoglou, and Dimitrios Koutsouris "Use of the polarization vector in modeling tissue fluorescence: theoretical and experimental comparison", Proc. SPIE 3197, Optical Biopsies and Microscopic Techniques II, (29 December 1997); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.297953
Advertisement
Advertisement
RIGHTS & PERMISSIONS
Get copyright permission  Get copyright permission on Copyright Marketplace
KEYWORDS
Tissues

Luminescence

Mathematical modeling

Scattering

Electromagnetic scattering

Dielectrics

Data modeling

Back to Top