An investigation of light transport through scattering bodies with non-scattering regions

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 767-783

  Firbank, Michael ^a   Arridge, Simon R ^a   Schweiger, Martin ^a   Delpy, David T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN OXYGENATION; HEMODYNAMICS; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; LIGHT; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; OXYGENATION; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BRAIN; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; HUMANS; LIGHT; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, INFRARED;

EID: 0029987994     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/41/4/012     Document Type: Article

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