Fig. 3.
MC Simulated Characteristics of the NIRS-Integrated catheter. A) shows the effect of measured reflectance (RRel) due to changes in tissue optical properties as derived from MC simulations. RRel exhibited exponential decay as a function of increasing µa. RRel increases gradually for small µs’, then decreases monotonically after reaching an infection point at before 10 cm−1. B) shows the MVD distribution (black curve) for 10,000 collected photons simulated for normal myocardium tissue. The distribution was fit to a log-normal function (red curve) to approximate the mean MVD of the collected photons.