Determination of the optical properties of turbid media from a single Monte Carlo simulation

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 41, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 2221-2227

  Kienle, Alwin ^a   Patterson, Michael S ^a  

^a JURAVINSKI CANCER CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; TURBIDIMETRY;

ANIMALS; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NEPHELOMETRY AND TURBIDIMETRY; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 0029746220     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/41/10/026     Document Type: Article

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