Time-resolved imaging of opaque and transparent spheres embedded in a highly scattering medium

Applied Optics

Volumn 32, Issue 21, 1993, Pages 3837-3841

  Hebden, Jeremy C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Time of flight; Time resolved imaging

Indexed keywords

MICROSPHERES;

FLIGHT TIME; OPAQUE SPHERES; SCATTERING MEDIUM; SMALL SPHERES; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TIME OF FLIGHT; TIME RESOLVED IMAGING;

SPHERES;

EID: 0000801220     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.32.003837     Document Type: Article

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