Table 2.

Optical properties of the ex-vivo caucasian skin tissues and tissue phantom calculated by inverse adding doubling with a single integrating sphere

object	λ (nm)	μa(cm−1)	μs′ (cm−1)	refractive index
–	–	Ave ± E.R.	Ave ± E.R.	–
Tissue phantom	500	0.12 ± 0.01	5.71 ± 0.13	1.31
	600	0.112 ± 0.01	3.78 ± 0.09
	700	0.097 ± 0.01	2.8 ± 0.07
Caucasian skin	500	0.16	4.2	1.41–1.62
	600	0.13	3.0
	700	0.11	2.3