Determination of the optical properties of two–layer turbid media by use of a frequency–domain hybrid Monte Carlo diffusion model

Applied Optics

Volumn 40, Issue 22, 2001, Pages 3810-3821

  Alexandrakis, George ^a   Busch, David R ^b   Faris, Gregory W ^b   Patterson, Michael S ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b SRI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSION; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT PROPAGATION; LIGHT REFLECTION; LIGHT SCATTERING; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PHOTONS; TURBIDITY;

TURBID MEDIA;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

EID: 0037822321     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.40.003810     Document Type: Article

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