Ultrafast-laser-radiation transfer in heterogeneous tissues with the discrete–ordinates method

Applied Optics

Volumn 42, Issue 16, 2003, Pages 2897-2905

  Guo, Zhixiong ^a   Kim, Kyunghan ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT PROPAGATION; LIGHT REFLECTION; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; TISSUE;

RADIATION TRANSFER;

LASER BEAM EFFECTS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; LASER; THEORETICAL MODEL; TIME;

ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; LASERS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0037872013     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.42.002897     Document Type: Article

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