A spectroscopic system which determines a property of a biological
structure in a volume of interest of a person includes a low cost
objective lens for directing an excitation beam into a volume of interest
and for collecting return radiation from the volume of interest. After
detection of the return radiation and generation of spectroscopic
signals, a correction unit performs a compensation for aberrations of the
spectroscopic signals introduced by the low cost objective lens. Since
the aberrations of the objective lens strongly depend on the lateral
distance of the volume of interest from the optical axis of the objective
lens, the correction unit uses a correction table providing an assignment
between correction values and various lateral positions of the volume of
interest.