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Surface and subsurface imaging of biological tissue

Industry
Biomedical
Object
Tissue sample
Challenge
Translucency, subsurface scattering
Raw points
1,184,017

What makes it hard

Biological tissue is translucent to visible light. Light enters the surface layer, scatters many times, and returns from a point near the surface. For 3D vision that assumes light reflects off the surface, the depth decision is ambiguous by nature. Is this the surface, or a point a few millimeters below it?

What we measured

1,184,017 raw points. The surface texture, the boundary between fat and muscle, and the layers of the cut face are all distinguishable.

Can We Solve Your Problem?

Send us the part details or drawings. We will tell you if the measurement is feasible.