@inproceedings{discovery10089139, note = {This version is the version of record. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher's terms and conditions.}, address = {Munich, Germany}, volume = {11074}, editor = {H Dehghani and H Wabnitz}, booktitle = {Diffuse Optical Spectroscopy and Imaging VII}, month = {July}, series = {Proceedings of SPIE}, journal = {Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE}, title = {The BITMAP exercise: a multi-laboratory performance assessment campaign of diffuse optical instrumentation}, year = {2019}, publisher = {SPIE}, abstract = {Performance assessment of instruments is a growing demand in the diffuse optics community and there is a definite need to get together to address this issue. Within the EU Network BITMAP1, we initiated a campaign for the performance evaluation of 10 diffuse optical instrumentation from 7 partner institutions adopting a set of 3 well accepted, standardized protocols. A preliminary analysis of the outcome along with future perspectives will be presented.}, author = {Lanka, P and Yang, L and Orive-Miguel, D and Veesa, JD and Tagliabue, S and Sudakou, A and Samaei, S and Forcione, M and Kovacsova, Z and Behera, A and Herv{\'e}, L and Durduran, T and Liebert, A and Sawosz, P and Belli, A and Tachtsidis, I and Dalla Mora, A and Dehghani, H and Wabnitz, H and Pifferi, A}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2527120} }