vangemert
normal aorta and plaque

JMC van Gemert, RM Verdaasdonk, EG Stassen, G Schets, et al. Optical properties
of human blood vessel wall and plaquye. Lasers Surg Med 5:235-27, 1985, 

cited by MJC van Gemert, AJ Welch, SL Jacques, QF Cheong, WM Star. Light
distribution, optical properties, and cardiovascular tissues. in Lasers in
cardiovascular medicine and surgery: Fundamentals and techniques,ed. G.S.
Abela, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Norwell, MA, 1990.  

Data obtained graphically from published figure, not original data.

nm = wavelength
mua = absorption coeff [cm^-1]
mus = scattering coeff [cm^-1]
g   = anisotropy  [dimensionless]
musp = mus*(1-g) = reduced scattering coeff [cm^-1}

normal aorta
nm    	mua   	musp
514.0	6.856	14.87
633.0	0.8800	8.621
1064	0.5080	4.285
		
plaque
nm    	mua   	musp
514.0	10.98	29.06
633.0	1.076	14.29
1064	0.9000	3.354