Monte Carlo simulations and laser Doppler flow measurements with high penetration depth in biological tissuelike head phantoms

Applied Optics

Volumn 36, Issue 22, 1997, Pages 5647-5654

  Soelkner, Gerald ^a   Mitic, Gerhard ^a   Lohwasser, Robert ^a  

^a ZFE T KM2   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cortex perfusion; High penetration depth; Laser Doppler flowmetry; Monte Carlo simulations; Tissue optics; Tissuelike phantom

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001366484     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.36.005647     Document Type: Article

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