Anomalous Rayleigh scatter in dilute media

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 47, Issue 18, 2002, Pages 3407-3417

  Hugtenburg, Richard P ^a,b   Muthuvelu, P ^b   Bradley, David A ^b  

^a QUEEN ELIZABETH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; IODINE; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MONTE CARLO METHODS; RAYLEIGH SCATTERING; SYNCHROTRON RADIATION; X RAY SCATTERING;

AQUEOUS MEDIA;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

IODINE; IRON;

ACCURACY; AQUEOUS SOLUTION; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DILUTION; FLUORESCENCE; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION ABSORPTION; RADIATION DETECTOR; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION ENERGY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION MEASUREMENT; RADIATION SCATTERING; X RAY;

EID: 0037152069     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/47/18/309     Document Type: Article

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