Abstract
Recently there has been an increasing interest in detecting and imaging heterogeneities in highly scattering media such as biological tissue, with diffusing near infrared light [1]. Most of these studies have centered on the detection of variations of the endogenous absorption and scattering coefficients in tissues and tissue phantoms. Exogenous fluorophores however offer a qualitatively different means to enhance the sensitivity and specificity for the detection of heterogeneities within deep tissues [2].
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