Robustness and accuracy of the calibration model for the determination of the optical properties of chicken skin

Abstract

The optical properties namely the absorption and reduced scattering coefficients of chicken skin taken from the breast was measured using an Integrating Sphere setup at 632.8nm. The properties were extracted using the multiple regression method. The absorption coefficient was found to between 0.16-0.59 cm-1 and the reduced scattering coefficent 10.85-21.42 cm-1 for different slices of the same sample of chicken. These results illustrated the inhomogenuity of tissue samples along with the robustness of the calibration model, in evaluating the extracted properties.