Theory of total-internal-reflection tomography

Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 542-547

  Carney, P Scott ^a   Schotland, John C ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT SCATTERING; PROBLEM SOLVING; TOMOGRAPHY;

TOMOGRAPHIC IMAGES;

IMAGE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0042575136     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.20.000542     Document Type: Article

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