Talk:Near-infrared window in biological tissue

Duplicate article

This article appears to be a duplicate or near-duplicate of Optical window in biological tissue. I don't have time to sort out what their history is, but they probably ought to be combined! (Did someone intend to make the other title redirect to this one?) --Steuard (talk) 18:15, 6 May 2011 (UTC)

A merge proposal from 2011 has gone stale without discussion. But the merge seems common-sense - the articles are essentially identical and no reason was given for the 2009 creation of the other page. In the spirit of WP:BRD I have redirected that page to this one.

One difference between the two is the following, which I will leave to others more expert in the topic. The other page included this in the section on the absorption spectrum for brain tissue:

"Thus tissue oxygen saturation can be defined as $StO_{2}\,$ = 0.2 x $SaO_{2}\,$ + 0.8 x $SvO_{2}\,$ ≈ 70%."

while this page reads:

"tissue oxygen saturation can be defined as $StO_{2}\,$ = 0.3 x $SaO_{2}\,$ + 0.7 x $SvO_{2}\,$ ≈ 70%."

Note the difference in proportions. Other than that the text was essentially the same. But happy to discuss as always. Euryalus (talk) 07:46, 3 August 2014 (UTC)

Actually, further to the above, I have merged across some of the additional text - and one additional reference - from the 2009 fork. Although a wikilink is sufficient as an edit summary I have also included a diff to the most recent un-redirected page, per the conversation here. Noting that the brain absorption content was more recently added on the other page than here, I have also changed the proportion figures to 80/20.

Again, happy to discuss. Euryalus (talk) 08:14, 3 August 2014 (UTC)

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