The sensitivity of the second-order parameter of the Henyey-Greenstein phase function based on the spatially-resolved diffuse reflectance within the two-point-source approximation to the Delta-P1 approximation model is studied, and the analytical expression of the sensitivity is derived. The results show that the analytic solution of the Delta-P1 approximation model for reflectance contains the second-order parameter of the scattering phase function compared with the diffusion approximation model, and the second-order parameter has significant influence (the extreme value greater than 30%) on the analytic solution for spatially-resolved diffuse reflectance with small source-detector separations ( 1.5 mm) no matter whether the absorption is weak or strong. The research has theoretical significance for obtaining the optical information abour tissue with the second-order parameter .
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