Glucose-induced changes in the optical properties of intralipid

Photoacoustic and optical measurement techniques were used in this paper to study glucose-induced changes in Intralipid suspensions. Optical energy was provided by a Nd:YAG laser at 1064 and 532 nm and a picosecond laser module at 906 nm. As detectors, the setup employed a photoacoustic detector, PIN diode, and streak camera. Increasing the glucose content of the suspensions increased the refractive indices of the studied media. This served to decrease the refractive index mismatch between the background and the scattering particles and led consequently to decreased scattering, which then affected both the peak-to-peak value of the photoacoustic signals and the transmitted optical pulses. At 1064 nm, glucose changed the peak-to-peak value of the photoacoustic signal more in 1% than in 2% Intralipid. In addition, the glucose-induced change in the transmitted pulse amplitude was less noticeable at 532 than at 1064 nm in 1% Intralipid.