Table 4.

Bulk optical properties of 10 consecutive patients obtained from left and right healthy breasts at the same quadrant.

Case#	Chest-wall depth (cm)	Wavelength(nm)	Right breast $({\mu }_a∕{\mu }_s^{\prime })$ (cm−1/cm−1)	Left breast $({\mu }_a∕{\mu }_s^{\prime })$ (cm−1/cm−1)
1	2.0	780	0.020/3.31	0.027/4.06
		830	0.036/4.03	0.044/4.85
2	1.8	780	0.053/5.98	0.055/7.57
		830	0.081/6.30	0.090/7.24
3	1.5	780	0.065/6.48	0.066/6.27
	(tilted)	830	0.072/6.60	0.090/5.56
4	1.4	780	0.060/4.96	0.059/5.03
	(tilted 5 deg)	830	0.083/4.84	0.084/4.62
5	>4	780	0.004/2.87	0.006/2.67
		830	0.020/3.18	0.024/2.83
6	2.5	780	0.007/3.55	0.010/3.20
	(tilted 11 deg)	830	0.024/3.82	0.027/3.38
7	2.5	780	0.009/2.59	0.003/1.92
	(tilted 11 deg)	830	0.026/3.03	0.022/2.18
8	2	780	0.041/3.83	0.044/4.97
	(flat)	830	0.051/4.36	0.053/5.68
9	Implants under 1.8 cm	780	0.026/4.08	0.017/2.96
	breast tissue	830	0.039/4.50	0.028/3.59
10	2	780	0.020/4.34	0.022/4.23
	(tilted 8 deg)	830	0.035/5.16	0.040/4.76