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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 May 19.
Published in final edited form as: Proc SPIE Int Soc Opt Eng. 2014 Feb 1;8926:89262C. doi: 10.1117/12.2037831

Table 5.

Summary of measured in–vivo optical properties pre/post PDT for tumor and normal tissue. For the patients in whom measurements could be made.

pre PDT normal pre PDT tumor post PDT normal post PDT tumor
Case # Site Method μa μs μeff μa μs μeff μa μs μeff μa μs μeff
29 oral cavity Collimated beam 0.39 13.82 3.99
28 oral cavity Collimated beam 0.11 26.18 2.84 0.15 26.64 3.42 0.49 10.68 3.83 4.23 0.74 3.00
26 oral cavity Collimated beam 0.32 4.65 2.09 1.76 2.01 3.25 0.07 5.52 1.02 0.05 4.82 0.80
21 oral cavity Collimated beam 0.16 17.89 2.96 1.46 1.83 2.74 0.91 4.69 3.18
19 oral cavity Collimated beam 0.15 19.88 3.00 0.16 2.93 3.54 0.41 3.11 1.86 0.15 1.79 0.87
18 oral cavity Collimated beam 0.13 4.20 1.29 0.12 3.43 1.12 0.10 4.91 1.18 0.23 0.91 0.80
16 oral cavity Collimated beam 0.46 3.28 1.98 2.10 6.55 4.04
24 nasal cavity Baloon 0.02 4.27 0.45 0.38 5.52 2.24 0.19 6.48 1.90
22 larynx Baloon 0.31 11.67 3.23
20 oral cavity Baloon 0.16 18.95 3.00 0.39 13.24 3.98 0.09 8.13 1.51 0.79 15.19 6.08
AVR 0.19 12.41 2.20 0.48 9.99 3.09 0.43 5.67 2.05 1.00 6.11