essenpreis aorta M Essenpreis. Thermally induced changes in optical properties of biological tissues Univ. Thesis, College London, UK, 1992. Cited by WF Cheong, Appendix to Chapter 8: Summary of Optical Properties, in AJ Welch, MJC van Gemert, Optical-Thermal response of laser-irradiated tissue, Plenum Press, New York, 1995. Data obtained graphically from published figure, not original data. nm = wavelength mua = absorption coeff [cm^-1] mus = scattering coeff [cm^-1] g = anisotropy [dimensionless] musp = mus*(1-g) = reduced scattering coeff [cm^-1} nm mua mus g musp 1064 0.500 239.0 0.900 23.90 1320 2.200 233.0 0.900 23.30