Measurement of optical transport properties of normal and malignant human breast tissue

Applied Optics

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 176-184

  Ghosh, N ^a   Mohanty, S K ^a   Majumder, S K ^a   Gupta, P K ^a  

^a RAJA RAMANNA CENTRE FOR ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT REFLECTION; LIGHT SCATTERING; TISSUE; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

SCATTERING COEFFICIENT;

OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT;

EID: 0000103957     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.40.000176     Document Type: Article

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