In vivo local determination of tissue optical properties: Applications to human brain

Applied Optics

Volumn 38, Issue 22, 1999, Pages 4939-4950

  Bevilacqua, Fredéric ^a   Piguet, Dominique ^a   Marquet, Pierre ^a   Gross, Jeffrey D ^b,c   Tromberg, Bruce J ^b   Depeursinge, Christian ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; LIGHT REFLECTION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PHOTONS; TISSUE;

FREQUENCY DOMAIN PHOTON MIGRATION; SOURCE-DETECTOR SEPARATIONS;

SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 0032607664     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.38.004939     Document Type: Article

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