Measuring absorption coefficients in small volumes of highly scattering media: Source-detector separations for which path lengths do not depend on scattering properties

Applied Optics

Volumn 36, Issue 22, 1997, Pages 5655-5661

  Mourant, Judith R ^a   Bigio, Irving J ^a   Jack, Darren A ^a   Johnson, Tamara M ^a   Miller, Heather D ^a  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Absorbance measurements; Concentration measurements; Tissue absorption; Turbid media

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000979337     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.36.005655     Document Type: Article

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