Investigation of scattering coefficients and anisotropy factors of human cancerous and normal prostate tissues using Mie theory

Yang Pu; Jun Chen; Wubao Wang

doi:10.1117/12.2034863

26 February 2014 Investigation of scattering coefficients and anisotropy factors of human cancerous and normal prostate tissues using Mie theory

Yang Pu, Jun Chen, Wubao Wang

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Proceedings Volume 8941, Optical Interactions with Tissue and Cells XXV; and Terahertz for Biomedical Applications; 894115 (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2034863
Event: SPIE BiOS, 2014, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

The scattering coefficient, μ_s, the anisotropy factor, g, the scattering phase function, p(θ), and the angular dependence of scattering intensity distributions of human cancerous and normal prostate tissues were systematically investigated as a function of wavelength, scattering angle and scattering particle size using Mie theory and experimental parameters. The Matlab-based codes using Mie theory for both spherical and cylindrical models were developed and applied for studying the light propagation and the key scattering properties of the prostate tissues. The optical and structural parameters of tissue such as the index of refraction of cytoplasm, size of nuclei, and the diameter of the nucleoli for cancerous and normal human prostate tissues obtained from the previous biological, biomedical and bio-optic studies were used for Mie theory simulation and calculation. The wavelength dependence of scattering coefficient and anisotropy factor were investigated in the wide spectral range from 300 nm to 1200 nm. The scattering particle size dependence of μ_s, g, and scattering angular distributions were studied for cancerous and normal prostate tissues. The results show that cancerous prostate tissue containing larger size scattering particles has more contribution to the forward scattering in comparison with the normal prostate tissue. In addition to the conventional simulation model that approximately considers the scattering particle as sphere, the cylinder model which is more suitable for fiber-like tissue frame components such as collagen and elastin was used for developing a computation code to study angular dependence of scattering in prostate tissues. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study to deal with both spherical and cylindrical scattering particles in prostate tissues.

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Yang Pu, Jun Chen, and Wubao Wang "Investigation of scattering coefficients and anisotropy factors of human cancerous and normal prostate tissues using Mie theory", Proc. SPIE 8941, Optical Interactions with Tissue and Cells XXV; and Terahertz for Biomedical Applications, 894115 (26 February 2014); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2034863

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