Table 1. Optical properties of the different types of mammalian tissue as found in the literature. The reduced scattering coefficient values are presented in ascending order.

Tissue	Reduced scattering coefficient (cm−1) [15]	Absorption coefficient (cm−1)
Liver	6.58	0.6- 1 [23]
Prostate	4-9.5 [27,28]	0.002- 0.7 [27,28]
Aorta	7.07	3.16 [25]
Muscle	8.13	0.2- 0.3 [21]
Small bowel	8.80	0.05- 0.2 [24]
White matter brain	9.41	0.75- 1.15 [19]
Breast	9.84	0.068- 0.102 [20]
Brain (mean)	10.70	0.4 [18]
Stomach wall	11.68	2 [26]
Fat (mean)	13.09	0.02 [21]
Bone	15.93	0.2 [22]
Skin (mean)	22.39	0.25 [16]
Dermis	23.53	3 [17]