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Developing a fiber-based diffuse reflectance spectroscopy setup for tissue optical property estimation.

Biomed Opt Express · 2026 · PMC13372354 · PMID 42460361

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a weak trendp = 0.077so close (0.05 < p ≤ 0.1)
Paired t-tests on per animal (n = 10) μ s ′ means did not show statistically significant medial-lateral differences at any wavelength (p ≥ 0.07), although a weak trend toward higher μ s ′ in the medial region was observed at 780 nm (p = 0.077). 3.5.

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a decreasing trendno p-value reported
The μ s ′ values showed a decreasing trend with wavelength, a hallmark of tissue scattering dominated by collagen fibrils and other subcellular structures.

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