NOTE: This analysis did not consider melanin, and did include bilirubin (porphyrin).
An updated version of this analysis includes epidermal melanin and ignores bilirubin (see April 2008).

Special lecture presented at SPIE Photonics West 2005 Spectroscopic determination of tissue optical properties using optical fiber spectrometer.. Steven L. Jacques Biomedical Engineering and Dermatology Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU) Portland, Oregon, USA Oregon Medical Laser Center (OMLC) home page OHSU/BME Biomedical Optics home page email: sjacques@bme.ogi.edu		If you cannot view the .mov movie above, download QuickTime at for Windows (PC) for Macintosh (Apple)

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Table of Contents 1. Abstract 2. Introduction 3. Optical fiber spectrometer 4. Measurement of skin spectrum 5. Analysis by least squares fitting 6. Summary of results 7. Conclusions

"This paper discusses how to use an optical fiber spectrometer to measure the optical scattering properties of tissues

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