Monte Carlo simulation of converging laser beams propagating in biological materials

Applied Optics

Volumn 38, Issue 13, 1999, Pages 2944-2949

  Song, Zhi ^a,b   Dong, Ke ^a   Hu, Xin H ^a   Lu, Jun Q ^a  

^a EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS; DOSIMETRY; FUNCTIONS; LIGHT PROPAGATION; LIGHT REFLECTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PHOTONS; PROBABILITY;

EXPONENTIAL DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION; FRESNEL REFLECTION COEFFICIENT; PHOTON DENSITY;

LASER TISSUE INTERACTION;

EID: 0032620398     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.38.002944     Document Type: Article

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