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. 2012 Dec 3;17(12):126003. doi: 10.1117/1.JBO.17.12.126003

Fig. 6.

Fig. 6

Histograms of the statistical variance of the photoacoustic intensity of the cropped suspicious area, which shows that the optical absorption fluctuation is the highest on average in the premenopausal normal ovaries because these ovaries have increased blood activity, whereas the lowest fluctuations in the absorption were on average in the cancer cases because the vasculature cluster is usually bulky with lower fluctuations.