Effects of anisotropic optical properties on photon migration in structured tissues

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 48, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1361-1370

  Dagdug, Leonardo ^a   Weiss, George H ^a   Gandjbakhche, Amir H ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; DIFFUSION; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PHOTONS; SCATTERING;

PHOTON MIGRATION;

TISSUE;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION; HUMAN TISSUE; LIGHT SCATTERING; MIGRATION; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; THEORETICAL MODEL; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ANISOTROPY; BIOPHYSICS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OPTICS; PHOTONS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; TOMOGRAPHY; TRANSILLUMINATION;

EID: 0037782145     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/48/10/309     Document Type: Article

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