Polarization properties of light backscattered from a two layer scattering medium

Optics Express

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2000, Pages 395-402

  Morgan, S P ^a   Ridgway, M E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; BACKSCATTERING; BIOTECHNOLOGY; LIGHT SCATTERING; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PHOTONS; POLARIZATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; TISSUE;

BURN DIAGNOSIS; MEDICAL OPTICS AND BIOTECHNOLOGY; PHOTON MIGRATION; SPECTROSCOPIC INFORMATION;

OPTICS;

EID: 0001219054     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.7.000395     Document Type: Article

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