Measurement of Optical Scattering Coefficient of the Individual Layers of the Human Urinary Bladder Using Optical Coherence Tomography

Table 1

Scattering coefficients of the human urinary bladder layers.

Normal bladder image	Urothelium (mm^−1)	Lamina propria (mm^−1)	Muscle layer (mm^−1)
1	—	0.96	2.25
2	—	2.39	2.09
3	0.35	2.69	0.83
4	—	1.68	0.55
5	0.31	2.48	1.19
Average μ𝑠	0.33	2.04	1.38
μ𝑠 standard deviation	0.03	0.71	0.75
Average correlation coefficient 𝑅^2	0.62	0.94	0.97