Time-domain optical imaging: Discrimination between scattering and absorption

Applied Optics

Volumn 38, Issue 16, 1999, Pages 3686-3693

  Painchaud, Yves ^a   Mailloux, Alain ^a   Morin, Michel ^a   Beaudry, Pierre ^b  

^a INO   (Canada)

^b Aerosp Research Technologies (ART)   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT SCATTERING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; SOLID STATE LASERS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

FIT TO AN INHOMOGENEOUS DIFFUSION MODEL (FIDM) METHODS; TIME DOMAIN OPTICAL IMAGING;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 0032621737     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.38.003686     Document Type: Article

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