Optical properties of brain tissue

Journal of Biomedical Optics

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 117-123

  Taddeucci, Adriana ^a   Martelli, Fabrizio ^a   Barilli, Marco ^a   Ferrari, Marco ^b   Zaccanti, Giovanni ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Brain optical properties; Extinction coefficient; Scattering function

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000544260     PISSN: 10833668     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/12.227816     Document Type: Article

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