Review Article

A Review of Indocyanine Green Fluorescent Imaging in Surgery

Table 9

An example of the light attenuation in an ICG imaging system.

RowComponent Attenuation Remaining intensity

 1 LED 780-66-60 0.2 = 1 W/sr
 2 Fs, ET775_50x 0.8 = 0.8 W/sr
 3 Tissue irradiance = 80 W/m2
 4 Tissue, 1 mm 0.45 = 36 W/m2
 5 Fluorescence 0.0027 = 0.10 W/m2
 6 Tissue, 1 mm 0.4545 mW/m2
 7 Lambertian S. 0.32 = 14 mW/sr
 8 Fc, ET845_55 m 0.3 = 4.3 mW/sr
 9 Irradiance, f/1.1 0.82 = 3.5 mW/m2

Response of the Hamamatsu ER-150 low light

 10 Power per pixel = 0.15 pW
 11 Photons per pixel = photons/s
 12 Detected photons 0.25 = electrons/s
 13 Optimal exposure
 14 Signal to noise SNR = 63 dB