Table 1.

Optical properties of actual breast cancer tissue and breast cancer phantom.

	Reduced scattering		Absorption coefficient
	coefficient (mm–1)		(mm–1)
Wavelength	Breast	Breast	Breast	Breast
(nm)	tumors	phantoms	tumors	phantoms
800	0.7–1.4	1.35–1.58	0.02–0.07	0.04–0.05
900	0.8–1.2	1.22–1.5	0.05–0.07	0.04–0.06