Photo-acoustic determination of optical parameters of tissue-like media with reference to opto-acoustic diffraction

Lasers in Medical Science

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 357-363

  Lohmann, S ^a,b   Ruff, Chr ^a   Schmitz, Chr ^a   Lubatschowski, H ^a,b   Ertmer, W ^a  

^a INSTITUT FÜR QUANTENOPTIK   (Germany)

^b LASER ZENTRUM HANNOVER E V   (Germany)

Author keywords

Optical properties; Photo acoustic; Piezoelectric transducer; Pressure transients

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; LASER; MEASUREMENT; OPTICS; PIEZOELECTRICITY; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0030778166     PISSN: 02688921     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02767160     Document Type: Article

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