Diffuse backscattering Mueller matrices of highly scattering media

Optics Express

Volumn 1, Issue 13, 1997, Pages 441-453

  Hielscher, Andreas H ^a   Eick, Angelia A ^a   Mourant, Judith R ^a   Shen, Dan ^a   Freyer, James P ^a   Bigio, Irving J ^a  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; CELLS; IMAGE PROCESSING; LASERS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIGHT REFLECTION; MIRRORS; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; POLYSTYRENES; SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS); TURBIDITY;

BACKREFLECTANCE; FIBROBLAST CELLS; MUELLER MATRICES; SCATTERING MEDIA;

BACKSCATTERING;

EID: 0001580073     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.1.000441     Document Type: Article

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