Photon density waves scattered from cylindrical inhomogeneities: Theory and experiments

Applied Optics

Volumn 37, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 1935-1944

  Walker, Scott A ^a   Boas, David A ^b   Gratton, Enrico ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; FUNCTIONS; NUMERICAL METHODS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PHOTONS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

BOLTZMANN TRANSPORT EQUATION; CYLINDRICAL INHOMOGENEITY; DIFFUSE PHOTON DENSITY WAVES;

ELECTRON SCATTERING;

EID: 0032048028     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.37.001935     Document Type: Article

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