Determining the optical properties of turbid media by using the adding-doubling method

Applied Optics

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 1993, Pages 559-568

  Welch A, Ashley J ^c  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUMERICAL METHODS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; ANISOTROPY; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; SCATTERING;

ADDING DOUBLING METHOD; INDEX OF REFRACTION; OPTICAL THICKNESS; RADIATIVE TRANSPORT EQUATION; REFLECTION AND TRANSMISSION; SCATTERING ANISOTROPY; TOTAL TRANSMISSION; UNSCATTERED TRANSMISSION;

OPTICAL PROPERTIES; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT;

ADDING-DOUBLING METHOD; RADIATIVE TRANSPORT EQUATION; TOTAL TRANSMISSION; TURBID MEDIA; UNSCATTERED TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0027539154     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.32.000559     Document Type: Article

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