Monte carlo procedure for investigating light propagation and imaging of highly scattering media

Applied Optics

Volumn 37, Issue 31, 1998, Pages 7392-7400

  Sassaroli, Angelo ^a,b   Blumetti, Costantino ^a   Martelli, Fabrizio ^a,b   Alianelli, Lucia ^a   Contini, Daniele ^a   Ismaelli, Andrea ^a   Zaccanti, Giovanni ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT PROPAGATION; LIGHT SCATTERING; MAMMOGRAPHY; PHOTONS;

HIGHLY SCATTERING MEDIA; PHOTON MIGRATION; RADIATIVE TRANSFER EQUATION;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

EID: 0032209395     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.37.007392     Document Type: Article

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