文摘
Breast tissues like fatty and fibroglandular ones are adipose mainly and possess high scattering nature, so that they diffuse and make the light approximately uniformly distribute over the measured cross-section besides absorbing to reduce the light intensity. Strong cause-and-effect relationships exist between absorption and intensity decay, and between scattering and phase delay as well. Thereby in a diffuse optical imaging system it is a general practice to estimate absorption coefficients from the measured intensity since it reflects most of the absorption property. This study aims to illustrate that both μ a and μ s ′ images of breast can be reconstructed by only direct-current data reliably to a certain extent. Varied sets of phantom design with assigned absorption/scattering properties for inclusion and background were synthesized and image reconstructed to demonstrate this perspective. Moreover, we employed a slab-type diffuse optical imaging system with a dual-direction direct-current NIR measurement module, where reconstructed images were compared between with and without reflectance NIR data.