Effect of the scattering delay on time-dependent photon migration in turbid media

Applied Optics

Volumn 36, Issue 25, 1997, Pages 6529-6538

  Yaroslavsky, I V ^a,b   Yaroslavsky, A N ^a,b   Tuchin, V V ^b   Schwarzmaier, H J ^a  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b SARATOV STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Diffusion equation; Monte Carlo simulation; Photon migration; Scattering delay; Tissue; Turbid medium

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001145783     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.36.006529     Document Type: Article

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