Evaluation of optical properties of highly scattering media by moments of distributions of times of flight of photons

Applied Optics

Volumn 42, Issue 28, 2003, Pages 5785-5792

  Liebert, Adam ^a,b   Wabnitz, Heidrun ^a   Grosenick, Dirk ^a   Möller, Michael ^a   Macdonald, Rainer ^a   Rinneberg, Herbert ^a  

^a PHYSIKALISCH TECHNISCHE BUNDESANSTALT   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF BIOCYBERNETICS AND BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; LASER; OPTICS; PHOTON; RADIATION SCATTERING; THEORETICAL MODEL; TIME;

LASERS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPTICS; PHOTONS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; TIME FACTORS;

DATA REDUCTION; LASER PULSES; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT SCATTERING; PHOTONS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; TISSUE;

SCATTERING MEDIA;

OPTICAL PROPERTIES;

EID: 0141958753     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.42.005785     Document Type: Article

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