ABSTRACT
Recent technological advancements in the photonics industry have spurred real progress toward the development of clinical functional imaging and surgical and therapeutic systems. ™e development of the optical methods in modern medicine in the areas of diagnostics, surgery, and therapy has stimulated the investigation of optical properties of human tissues, since the eŸcacy of optical probing of the tissues depends on the photon propagation and ¦uence rate distribution within irradiated tissues. Examples of diagnostic use are the following: the monitoring of blood oxygenation and tissue metabolism, detection of stomach malignancies, and recently suggested various techniques for optical imaging.
