Patent Document ID: 20110054298
Application ID: 12933037
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Claim One:
1. An optical method for determining morphological parameters and physiological properties of tissue, the method comprising the steps of: using reflectance measurements from a tissue area for a plurality of wavelengths; using a bio-optical model; using radiative transfer modeling; using a non-linear inversion procedure; systematically varying values of the morphological parameters and physiological properties of the tissue; and simultaneously varying inherent optical properties, wherein the inherent optical properties are linked to the morphological parameters and the physiological properties of the tissue, until the non-linear inversion procedure returns values for the morphological parameters and the physiological properties of the tissue such that an agreement between the reflectance measurements and reflectances computed by the radiative transfer model, based on the returned morphological parameters and the physiological properties of the tissue values and corresponding inherent optical properties values, reach a predetermined level of accuracy.