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In this study, we further develop a recently proposed inverse scattering algorithm that accurately reconstructs the dielectric properties of single cells, considering both scattering and absorption. We demonstrate the method\u2019s effectiveness using spherical model cells filled with six organic test substances: polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA), polycarbonate (PC), polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS), polyetherimide (PEI), polyethylene terephthalate (PET), and polystyrene (PS). The permittivity values of these substances, reconstructed from their extinction efficiencies and known refractive indexes from the literature, show excellent agreement with experimental data. Our comparative analysis of the basis sets for the reconstruction algorithm reveals that using dielectric functions leads to more accurate results compared to anti-symmetrized Lorentzians. We find that compared to other methods in the literature on PMMA spheres, our approach yields reconstructions of significantly higher quality. 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