Masafumi Minakawa, Md Abdul Wares, Kazuya Nakano, Hideaki Haneishi, Yoshihisa Aizu, Yoshio Hayasaki, Tetsuo Ikeda, Hajime Nagahara, Izumi Nishidate
SIGNIFICANCE: Evaluation of biological chromophore levels is useful for detection of various skin diseases, including cancer, monitoring of health status and tissue metabolism, and assessment of clinical and physiological vascular functions. Clinically, it is useful to assess multiple different chromophores in vivo with a single technique or instrument. AIM: To investigate the possibility of estimating the concentration of four chromophores, bilirubin, oxygenated hemoglobin, deoxygenated hemoglobin, and melanin from diffuse reflectance spectra in the visible region...
October 2023: Journal of Biomedical Optics