Measurements of optical properties of high-density media

Applied Optics

Volumn 42, Issue 19, 2003, Pages 4023-4030

  Zaccanti, Giovanni ^a   Bianco, Samuele Del ^a   Martelli, Fabrizio ^a  

^a INFM   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CHROMOPHORES; CORRELATION METHODS; LIGHT ABSORPTION;

HIGH-DENSITY MEDIA;

OPTICAL PROPERTIES;

LIPID EMULSION; MICROSPHERE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DENSITOMETRY; EVALUATION; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; METHODOLOGY; OPTICS; PARTICLE SIZE; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THEORETICAL MODEL; VALIDATION STUDY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DENSITOMETRY; FAT EMULSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; LASERS; MICROSPHERES; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPTICS; PARTICLE SIZE; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0041808736     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.42.004023     Document Type: Article

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