Discrete-Ordinate Transport Simulations of Light Propagation in Highly Forward Scattering Heterogeneous Media

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Volumn , Issue , 1998, Pages 23-28

  Hielscher, Andreas H ^a   Alcouffe, Raymond E ^b  

^a SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

(170.3660) Light propagation in tissues; 170.5280 Photon migration; 170.7050 Turbid media

Indexed keywords

CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; LIGHT PROPAGATION;

(170.3660) LIGHT PROPAGATION IN TISSUE; 170.5280 PHOTON MIGRATION; 170.7050 TURBID MEDIUM; DISCRETE ORDINATES; HETEROGENEOUS MEDIA; LIGHT PROPAGATION IN TISSUE; PHOTON MIGRATION; TRANSPORT CODES; TRANSPORT SIMULATION; TURBID MEDIA;

FORWARD SCATTERING;

EID: 0344513493     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21622701     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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