Practical improvements on photon diffusion theory: Application to isotropic scattering

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 46, Issue 11, 2001, Pages 3043-3050

  Graaff, R ^a   Rinzema, K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; DIFFUSION;

ISOTROPIC POINT SOURCES;

PHOTONS;

ACCURACY; ANALYSIS; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; ATTENUATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; ENERGY; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT SCATTERING; MATHEMATICS; OPTICS; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEADY STATE; THEORY; TIME; TURBIDITY;

BIOPHYSICS; DIFFUSION; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHOTONS; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 0034759477     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/46/11/318     Document Type: Article

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