Table 3.
Optical properties used to fluence compensate PA scan of in vivo placenta
| Tissue | µa (mm−1) 750 nm | 850 nm |
µs (mm−1) 750 nm | 850 nm |
Anisotropy | Refractive Index |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Skin | 0.2504 | 0.2935 | 25.22 | 21.90 | 0.9 | 1.37 |
| Placenta (liver) | 0.2083 | 0.2729 | 8.486 | 6.911 | 0.9 | 1.37 |
| Fetus (bone) | 0.0012 | 0.0020 | 13.18 | 12.63 | 0.9 | 1.37 |
| Standard Tissue | 0.0110 | 0.0199 | 10.97 | 9.418 | 0.9 | 1.37 |