Effective source term in the diffusion equation for photon transport in turbid media

Applied Optics

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 156-163

  Fantini, Sergio ^a   Franceschini, Maria Angela ^a   Gratton, Enrico ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

Diffusion equation; Frequency domain; Green's function; Photon migration; Tissue spectroscopy; Turbid media

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000260090     PISSN: 00036935     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.36.000156     Document Type: Article

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