Effective phase function for light scattered by blood |
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Authors: | Turcu Ioan |
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Affiliation: | National Institute for Research and Development of Isotopic and Molecular Technologies, P.O. Box 700, RO-400293 Cluj-Napoca, Romania. iturcu@L40.itim-cj.ro |
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Abstract: | The scattering process induced in blood by a collimated laser beam is theoretically investigated. An individual red blood cell (RBC) has a scattering phase function strongly peaked in the forward direction. For far-field experiments, the small scattering volumes can be considered as "macroscopic particles" characterized by an effective scattering phase function. Using the single-cell phase function as "input data" the angular distribution of light scattered at small angles by the whole scattering volume, containing RBCs in suspension, is calculated analytically. The angular dispersion of the light scattered by blood can be approximately described by the same formula used to characterize the light scattered by a single cell but with an effective, hematocrit-dependent anisotropy parameter. |
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