Table 1.

Uncertainty budget of the optical properties μ_a and ${\mu }_s^{\prime }$ of the B0430 sample (t = 6.95 mm) at λ = 632 nm. The standard deviation of the input experimental parameters is σ.

		Absolute uncertainties		Relative uncertainties
	σ	μa (mm−1)	${\mu }_s^{\prime }$ (mm−1)	μa(%)	${\mu }_s^{\prime }$(%)
Type B parameters
RStdRef	0.002	6.6 × 10−5	0.0034	0.58	0.33
d	0.02	9.3 × 10−5	0.0086	0.81	0.81
n	0.015	2.1 × 10−4	0.012	1.8	1.1
g	0.015	1.6 × 10−6	0.059	0.014	5.6
θ	0.0005	2.0 × 10−15	5.7 × 10−10	1.7 × 10−11	5.4 × 10−8
Total Type B uB		2.4 × 10−4	0.061	2.1	5.8
Repeatability		5.9 × 10−5	0.0033	0.51	0.31
Reproducibility sR		5.4 × 10−5	0.0028	0.47	0.27
Total type A uA		8.0 × 10−5	0.0043	0.69	0.41
Combined uc		2.5 × 10−4	0.061	2.2	5.8
Expanded U(k = 2)		5.0 × 10−4	0.12	4.4	12