Generalized Beer-Lambert model for near-infrared light propagation in thick biological tissues

Bhatt, Manish and Ayyalasomayajula, Kalyan Ram and Yalavarthy, Phaneendra K (2016) Generalized Beer-Lambert model for near-infrared light propagation in thick biological tissues. In: JOURNAL OF BIOMEDICAL OPTICS, 21 (7).

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Abstract

The attenuation of near-infrared (NIR) light intensity as it propagates in a turbid medium like biological tissue is described by modified the Beer-Lambert law (MBLL). The MBLL is generally used to quantify the changes in tissue chromophore concentrations for NIR spectroscopic data analysis. Even though MBLL is effective in terms of providing qualitative comparison, it suffers from its applicability across tissue types and tissue dimensions. In this work, we introduce Lambert-W function-based modeling for light propagation in biological tissues, which is a generalized version of the Beer-Lambert model. The proposed modeling provides parametrization of tissue properties, which includes two attenuation coefficients mu(0) and eta. We validated our model against the Monte Carlo simulation, which is the gold standard for modeling NIR light propagation in biological tissue. We included numerous human and animal tissues to validate the proposed empirical model, including an inhomogeneous adult human head model. The proposed model, which has a closed form (analytical), is first of its kind in providing accurate modeling of NIR light propagation in biological tissues. (C) 2016 Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE)

Item Type:	Journal Article
Publication:	JOURNAL OF BIOMEDICAL OPTICS
Additional Information:	Copy right for this article belongs to the SPIE-SOC PHOTO-OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION ENGINEERS, 1000 20TH ST, PO BOX 10, BELLINGHAM, WA 98225 USA
Department/Centre:	Division of Interdisciplinary Sciences > Computational and Data Sciences
Date Deposited:	08 Oct 2016 07:33
Last Modified:	21 Feb 2019 10:56
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/54950

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