Properties of the light emerging from a diffusive medium: Angular dependence and flux at the external boundary

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1257-1275

  Martelli, Fabrizio ^a   Sassaroli, Angelo ^a   Zaccanti, Giovanni ^b   Yamada, Yukio ^a  

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

^b INFM   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT SCATTERING; OPTICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION PHYSICS; SYSTEM ANALYSIS;

BIOPHYSICS; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; OPTICS; PHOTONS;

EID: 0032905890     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/44/5/013     Document Type: Article

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