Photon migration through a turbid slab described by a model based on diffusion approximation. I. Theory

Applied Optics

Volumn 36, Issue 19, 1997, Pages 4587-4599

  Contini, Daniele ^a   Martelli, Fabrizio ^a   Zaccanti, Giovanni ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Boundary conditions; Diffuse reflectance; Diffuse transmittance; Diffusion equation; Tissue optics

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001751901     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.36.004587     Document Type: Article

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