Correction to: A literature review and novel theoretical approach on the optical properties of whole blood

Correction to: Lasers Med Sci

https://doi.org/10.1007/s10103-013-1446-7

Original text, taken from the on-line version:

Following the method of Duysens, adapting only the terminology, we arrive at:

$${\mu }_{a,blood}=\left(\frac{1-e^{\left({\mu }_{a,Hb},\bullet ,d,{}_{\mathrm{RBC}}\right)}}{{\mu }_{a,Hb}\bullet d{}_{\mathrm{RBC}}}\right){\mu }_a,HB$$ 3

where μ _a,blood and μ _a,Hb are the absorption coefficient of a blood sample and haemoglobin solution, respectively. The length d _RBC is a typical dimension of a red blood cell.

There are two issues:

• There is a minus-sign missing within the exponential.

• The subscripts of the absorption coefficients within the parenthesis (..) are incorrect, and accordingly, the first sentence after the Eq. is incomplete.

The correct version should read:

Following the method of Duysens [32], adapting only the terminology, we arrive at:

$${\mu }_{a,blood}=\left(\frac{1-e^{-{\mu }_{a,RBC}\bullet d_{\mathit{RBC}}}}{{\mu }_{a,RBC}\bullet d_{\mathit{RBC}}}\right){\mu }_{a,Hb}$$ 3

where μ _a,blood and μ _a,Hb are the absorption coefficient of a blood sample and haemoglobin solution, respectively, and μ_a,RBC is the absorption coefficient of the hemoglobin solution inside the red blood cell. The last two absorption coefficients are related through the haematocrit, μ_a,Hb = Hct∙μ_a,RBC. The length d _RBC is a typical dimension of a red blood cell.

The original article has been corrected.

The online version of the original article can be found at https://doi.org/10.1007/s10103-013-1446-7