In vivo determination of local skin optical properties and photon path length by use of spatially resolved diffuse reflectance with applications in laser Doppler flowmetry

摘要

Methods for local photon pathlength and optical properties estimation, based on measured and simulated diffuse reflectance within 2mm from the light source, are proposed and evaluated in vivo on Caucasian human skin. The accuracy of the methods was good (2-7%) for pathlength and reduced scattering but poor for absorption estimation. Reduced scattering and absorption were systematically lower in the fingertip than in the forearm skin (633 nm). A maximum intra-site and inter-individual variation of ~35% in the average photon pathlength was found. The methodology was applied in laser Doppler flowmetry (LDF), where pathlength normalization of the estimated perfusion removed the optical property dependency.