Influence of refractive index matching on the photon diffuse reflectance

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 47, Issue 23, 2002, Pages 4271-4285

  Churmakov, D Y ^a   Meglinski, I V ^a   Greenhalgh, D A ^a  

^a CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENERGY CONSERVATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PARTICLE DETECTORS; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

SPATIAL PHOTON SENSITIVITY PROFILE (SPSP);

PHOTONS;

CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSE REFLECTANCE SPECTROSCOPY; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; ENERGY CONSERVATION; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT SCATTERING; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRISM; RADIATION DETECTOR; RADIATION ENERGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTION INDEX; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ABSORPTION; BIOPHYSICS; DIFFUSION; LIGHT; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHOTONS; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 0037038877     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/47/23/312     Document Type: Review

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