Photon migration of near-diffusive photons in turbid media: A Lagrangian-based approach

Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 224-229

  Perelman, Lev T ^a   Winn, Joshua ^a   Wu, Jun ^a   Dasari, Ramachandra R ^a   Feld, Michael S ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Diffusion; Path integral; Photon migration

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DIFFUSION; MATHEMATICS; PHOTON; RADIATION SCATTERING;

DIFFUSION; MATHEMATICS; PHOTONS; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 0030635556     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: 15208532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.14.000224     Document Type: Article

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