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A scattering phase function for blood with physiological haematocrit.

M Hammer·A N Yaroslavsky·D Schweitzer
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Though the optics of red blood cells as well as whole blood has been studied extensively, an effective scattering phase function for whole blood is still needed. The interference of waves scattered by neighbouring cells cannot be neglected in highly concentrated suspensions such as whole blood. As a result, the phase function valid for single erythrocytes may fail to describe a single scattering process in whole blood with physiological haematocrit (Hct approximately 0.4). In this study we compared the results obtained in goniophotometric measurements of blood samples with the results of angle-resolved Monte Carlo simulations. The results show that a Henyey-Greenstein phase function with an anisotropy factor of 0.972 is an adequate approximation for the effective scattering phase function of whole blood with high haematocrit at a wavelength of 514 nm.

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M Hammer, A N Yaroslavsky, D Schweitzer. 2001. A scattering phase function for blood with physiological haematocrit.. https://doi.org/10.1088/0031-9155%2F46%2F3%2F402

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