Effect of chicken breast tissue anisotropy on absorption and scattering spectra

We used oblique incidence reflectometry technique to deduce absorption and reduced scattering spectra of chicken breast tissue from wavelength-resolved measurements of the relative diffuse reflectance profile of white light as a function of source-detector distance with the probe oriented at 0 and 90 degrees relative to the muscle fibers. We found that the deduced optical properties varied with the probe orientation due to the tissue's structural anisotropy.