Photon time-of-flight distributions through turbid media directly measured with single-photon avalanche diodes

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 20, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 2383-2388

  Bondani, Maria ^a   Redaelli, Davide ^b   Spinelli, Alessandro ^b   Andreoni, Alessandra ^b   Roberti, Giuseppe ^a,c   Riccio, Patrizia ^a,c   Liuzzi, Raffaele ^d   Rech, Ivan ^e  

^a INFM   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INSUBRIA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^d CNR   (Italy)

^e POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVALANCHE DIODES; LASER OPTICS; LIGHT PROPAGATION; LIGHT SCATTERING; LIPIDS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; REFRACTIVE INDEX; TURBIDITY;

INTRALIPID CONCENTRATION;

PHOTONS;

EID: 0242493525     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.20.002383     Document Type: Article

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