Boundary conditions for light propagation in diffusive media with nonscattering regions

Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision

Volumn 17, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 1671-1681

  Ripoll, Jorge ^a   Nieto Vesperinas, Manuel ^a   Arridge, Simon R ^b   Dehghani, Hamid ^b  

^a INSTITUTO DE CIENCIA DE MATERIALES DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; LIGHT SCATTERING; MONTE CARLO METHODS;

LIGHT DIFFUSION;

LIGHT PROPAGATION;

EID: 0000311941     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: 15208532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.17.001671     Document Type: Article

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