Način dostopa (URL): http://books.lex-localis.press/evidenceincivillaw/latvia ISBN 978-961-6842-53-2 (epub) 1. Ose, Daina 2. Osis, Martins 281123840Price: free copy This project has been funded with support from the European Commission. This publication reflects the views only of the authors, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.

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The remitted photon path lengths in human skin can be estimated by modelling; however, there are very few experimental data available to validate the simulations. This study exploited the photon time of flight method where picosecond laser pulses at seven wavelength bands in the spectral range 560-800 nm were launched into in-vivo forearm skin of 10 volunteers via an optical fiber. The pulses of back-scattered light were detected via another optical fiber placed at variable distance (1, 8, 12, 16 or 20 mm) from the input fiber, with subsequent analysis of their shapes for all 35 spectral-spatial combinations. Using a deconvolution algorithm, the distribution functions of remitted photon arrival times after infinitely narrow input pulse were calculated and transformed into distributions of skin-remitted photon path lengths. Nearly linear dependences of the remitted photon mean path length on inter-fiber distance were obtained for all wavelength bands, while the spectral dependences at fixed inter-fiber distances showed more complicated character, most probably due to absorption of the dermal hemoglobin.

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