Time-resolved photon emission from layered turbid media

Applied Optics

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 719-728

  Hielscher, Andreas H ^a,d   Liu, Hanli ^b   Chance, Britton ^b   Tittel, Frank K ^a   Jacques, Steven L ^c  

^a The NanoCarbon Center and Welch Institute for Advanced Materials   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^d LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Blood oxygenation; Brain; Diffusion theory; Monte Carlo simulation; Multilayer; Photon counting; Photon migration; Reflectance; Scattering; Time resolved; Tissue phantom

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037664845     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.35.000719     Document Type: Article

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