Abstract: Different skin and sub-surface tissues have distinct or unique reflectance pattern which help us differentiate normal and cancerous tissues. Optical means of characterizing tissues have ...

Diffuse reflectance spectroscopy (DRS), in which the diffuse and scattered light returning from a sample can reveal details of its composition, has been widely studied as a means to measure hemoglobin ...

1 Image-guided Surgery, Surgical Department, Netherlands Cancer Institute - Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, Amsterdam, Netherlands 2 Department of Nanobiophysics, University of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands ...

Diffuse reflectance spectroscopy is extremely useful for analyzing rough surfaced samples and powders. However, it is difficult to analyze most of the rough surfaced samples with in-compartment ...

Introduction: Chest trauma or disease progression can lead to tension pneumothorax, a condition where mounting pressurization of the pleural cavity (the space between the chest wall and the lungs) ...