Optical properties of parietal peritoneum in the spectral range 350- 2500 nm

ABSTRACT The wide application of optical methods in the areas of diagnostics, therapy and surgery of modern medicine has stimulated the investigation of optical properties of various biological tissues. Numerous investigations related to determination of tissue optical properties are available; however, the optical properties of many tissues have not been studied in a wide wavelength range. In this work the optical properties of parietal peritoneum in the wavelength range 350-2500 nm were measured. Measurement of the diffuse reflectance, total and collimated transmittance were performed using LAMBDA 950 (Perkin Elmer, USA) spectrophotometer with an integrating sphere, and values of absorption and scattering coefficients, and the scattering anisotropy factor were calculated by inverse Monte Carlo Method