Design and testing of a white-light, steady-state diffuse reflectance spectrometer for determination of optical properties of highly scattering systems

Applied Optics

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 93-104

  Nichols, Michael G ^a   Hull, Edward L ^a   Foster, Thomas H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Diffuse reflectance; Diffusion theory; Monte Carlo; Tissue optics

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT SCATTERING; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; MANGANESE COMPOUNDS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; TISSUE;

DIFFUSE REFLECTANCE; DIFFUSION THEORY; MANGANESE MESOTETRA SULFANATOPHENYL PORPHYSIN; PHANTOMS; TISSUE OPTICS; WHITE LIGHT DIFFUSE REFLECTANCE SPECTROMETERS;

SPECTROMETERS;

EID: 0030855571     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.36.000093     Document Type: Article

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