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Comparative study of optical properties estimation on liquid optical phantoms using spatially-resolved diffuse reflectance spectroscopy and double integrating spheres methods

Whether for diagnosis, therapy or surgery, the estimation of optical properties (OP) of biological tissues is now of interest in the medical context. Indeed, optical methods are increasingly used in modern medicine, and these require knowledge of the behavior of light within the tissue. The presentation contribution aims to validate the estimation process of absorption and scattering coefficients values obtained using spatially-resolved diffuse reflectance (SR-DR) spectroscopy by comparing the obtained results with those of the reference double integrating spheres (DIS) technique. A set of nine optical phantoms based on methylene blue and intralipids allowing to tune absorption and scattering properties was prepared, from which diffuse reflectance spectra and integrating spheres measurements were acquired respectively. Work presented here reports both estimations approaches developed and highlights the relative spreads of optical properties between DR, DIS and theoretical values (i.e. according scatterer and absorber concentrations introduced in phantoms). This validation on optical bench will allow to later estimate the OP from in-vivo DR spectra acquired on skin samples, to assist the surgeon in non-invasively diagnosing the health status of a tissue around a skin carcinoma