Distribution of the paths of early-arriving photons traversing a turbid medium

Applied Optics

Volumn 37, Issue 34, 1998, Pages 8085-8091

  Winn, Joshua N ^a   Perelman, Lev T ^a   Chen, Kun ^a   Wu, Jun ^a   Dasari, Ramachandra R ^a   Feld, Michael S ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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EID: 0001338638     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.37.008085     Document Type: Article

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