Table 1.

Summary of the Hb concentrations and expected phantom optical properties averaged over the wavelength from 450 to 600 nm. Phantom 11 was selected as the reference phantom for all MC inversions.

		Day 1		Day 2
	Averaged	Hb	Averaged	Hb	Averaged
Phantom	${\mu }_s^{\prime }$ (cm−1)	(μM)	μa (cm−1)	(μM)	μa (cm−1)
1	17.33	1.02	0.085	0.91	0.08
2	17.15	2.21	0.18	2.09	0.17
3	16.97	3.31	0.27	3.19	0.26
4	16.80	4.42	0.37	4.18	0.35
5	16.63	5.53	0.47	5.06	0.43
6	16.44	6.64	0.55	6.28	0.52
7	16.28	7.75	0.65	7.27	0.61
8	16.10	8.86	0.75	8.15	0.69
9	15.93	9.97	0.84	9.26	0.78
10	15.76	11.08	0.93	10.37	0.87
11	15.39	13.31	1.11	12.47	1.04
12	15.04	15.55	1.30	14.47	1.21
13	14.71	17.79	1.49	16.60	1.39
14	14.17	21.15	1.76	19.83	1.65
15	13.66	24.53	2.05	22.85	1.91
16	13.13	27.91	2.33	25.99	2.17
17	12.52	31.87	2.65	29.71	2.47
Overall range	11.56 to 19.15	1.02 to 31.87	0.016 to 4.65	0.91 to 29.71	0.011 to 4.38