1. The see through body A BRIEF INTRODUCTION BY: ABEL RUIZ

2. What do I mean?  Explain the phenomenon of shinning a flashlight through your hand And being able to see through it. This effect is known as the optical window or absorption window.

3. Key consepts  Refractive index  Scattering  absorption

4. Refractive index

5. Absorption

6. Scattering  Because interaction of light with matter can change the direction of propagation and give rise to attenuation we must take it into effect. We can relate it to the intensities by:  I d =i 0 e (-μs*d)  Where μ s is the scattering coefficient for a given wavelength(probability per unit length of a photon being scattered).  Anisotropy (g)  Is the average value of the cosine of the scattering angle. It ranges from (1,-1) for extremely forward to extremely backward scattering.

7. Attenuation

8. Putting it all together  There are three different tissue components we need to look at  Water – water is nearly transparent in the visible light range but starts to absorb over the near –infrared region. Using the effective absorption coefficient we can plot the absorption vs. wavelength of water.  Blood(hemoglobin)- for hemoglobin absorption peaks at 420nm and 580nm and then gradually decreases at the wavelength increases.  Melanin- the absorption of melanin linearly decreases as the wavelength increases.

9. As seen, the optical window is bound within the wavelengths of (630- 930nm) corresponding to red and infrared light. The lower limit is set by both the hemoglobin and melanin. While at the upper boundary it is bound by the absorption spectrum of the water. Bone was not plotted because the abortion coefficient is near 1 due to the highly dense calcium atoms that tend to absorb all photons.

10. credits  http://www.medphys.ucl.ac.uk/research/borg/homepages/gbranc o/Chapter%202%20Fundamentals%20of%20Tissue%20Optics.pdf http://www.medphys.ucl.ac.uk/research/borg/homepages/gbranc o/Chapter%202%20Fundamentals%20of%20Tissue%20Optics.pdf  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_window_in_biological_tissue#S ee_also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_window_in_biological_tissue#S ee_also  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near-infrared_spectroscopy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near-infrared_spectroscopy  Pictures provided by Dmitry Budker