Reconstructing in-vivo reflectance spectrum of pigmented skin lesion by Monte Carlo simulation

Shuang Wang; Qingli He; Jianhua Zhao; Harvey Lui; Haishan Zeng

doi:10.1117/12.923858

13 March 2012 Reconstructing in-vivo reflectance spectrum of pigmented skin lesion by Monte Carlo simulation

Shuang Wang, Qingli He, Jianhua Zhao, Harvey Lui, Haishan Zeng

Proceedings Volume 8329, Tenth International Conference on Photonics and Imaging in Biology and Medicine (PIBM 2011); 83290Y (2012) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.923858
Event: Photonics and Optoelectronics Meetings 2011, 2011, Wuhan, China

Abstract

In dermatology applications, diffuse reflectance spectroscopy has been extensively investigated as a promising tool for the noninvasive method to distinguish melanoma from benign pigmented skin lesion (nevus), which is concentrated with the skin chromophores like melanin and hemoglobin. We carried out a theoretical study to examine melanin distribution in human skin tissue and establish a practical optical model for further pigmented skin investigation. The theoretical simulation was using junctional nevus as an example. A multiple layer skin optical model was developed on established anatomy structures of skin, the published optical parameters of different skin layers, blood and melanin. Monte Carlo simulation was used to model the interaction between excitation light and skin tissue and rebuild the diffuse reflectance process from skin tissue. A testified methodology was adopted to determine melanin contents in human skin based on in vivo diffuse reflectance spectra. The rebuild diffuse reflectance spectra were investigated by adding melanin into different layers of the theoretical model. One of in vivo reflectance spectra from Junctional nevi and their surrounding normal skin was studied by compare the ratio between nevus and normal skin tissue in both the experimental and simulated diffuse reflectance spectra. The simulation result showed a good agreement with our clinical measurements, which indicated that our research method, including the spectral ratio method, skin optical model and modifying the melanin content in the model, could be applied in further theoretical simulation of pigmented skin lesions.

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Shuang Wang, Qingli He, Jianhua Zhao, Harvey Lui, and Haishan Zeng "Reconstructing in-vivo reflectance spectrum of pigmented skin lesion by Monte Carlo simulation", Proc. SPIE 8329, Tenth International Conference on Photonics and Imaging in Biology and Medicine (PIBM 2011), 83290Y (13 March 2012); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.923858

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