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Tissue Refractive Index

Tissue Refractive Index is a biophysical property that quantifies the ratio of the speed of light in a vacuum to its speed in biological tissue, characterizing how tissue optically refracts incident electromagnetic radiation at a given wavelength.

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Helmholtz's treatise on physiological optics

James P. C. Southall · Journal of the Franklin Institute · 1924 · 702 citations

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Determination of the refractive index of highly scattering human tissue by optical coherence tomography

G. J. Tearney, Mark E. Brezinski, Brett E. Bouma et al. · Optics Letters · 1995 · 563 citations

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Refractive index of some mammalian tissues using a fiber optic cladding method

F. P. Bolin, Luther E. Preuss, Roy C. Taylor et al. · Applied Optics · 1989 · 516 citations

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Turbulent nature of refractive-index variations in biological tissue

Joseph M. Schmitt, Gitesh Kumar · Optics Letters · 1996 · 342 citations

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Possible correlation between blood glucose concentration and the reduced scattering coefficient of tissues in the near infrared

John Maier, Scott A. Walker, Sergio Fantini et al. · Optics Letters · 1994 · 318 citations · Full text

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Authors

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  1. VV
    Valery V. Tuchin

    Saratov State University, Russia

    11 publications · 268 citations

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  2. BP
    Barbara Pierścionek

    University of Ulster, United Kingdom

    6 publications · 305 citations

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  3. LO
    Luís Oliveira

    Polytechnic Institute of Porto, Portugal

    5 publications · 112 citations

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  4. MM
    Maria Matiatou

    Hippocration General Hospital, Greece

    4 publications · 223 citations

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  5. GP
    Gabriel Popescu

    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, United States

    4 publications · 527 citations

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259

  1. Saratov State University

    Saratov, Russia

    10 h-index

    26 publications

    897 citations

  2. University of Rochester

    Rochester, United States

    6 h-index

    19 publications

    1K citations

  3. The University of Melbourne

    Melbourne, Australia

    6 h-index

    9 publications

    472 citations

  4. Institute of Precision Mechanics and Control

    Saratov, Russia

    5 h-index

    8 publications

    99 citations

  5. Polytechnic Institute of Porto

    Porto, Portugal

    5 h-index

    6 publications

    122 citations

  6. Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata

    Kolkata, India

    4 h-index

    19 publications

    480 citations

  7. Nankai University

    Tianjin, China

    4 h-index

    26 publications

    769 citations

  8. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    Cambridge, United States

    4 h-index

    15 publications

    3.3K citations

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  1. Journal of Biomedical Optics

    18 publications · 916 citations

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  2. Optics Letters

    9 publications · 1.5K citations

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  4. Applied Optics

    7 publications · 878 citations

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  5. Biomedical Optics Express

    BOE · 6 publications · 155 citations

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