Determination of complex refractive index of polystyrene microspheres from 370 to 1610 nm

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 48, Issue 24, 2003, Pages 4165-4172

  Ma, Xiaoyan ^a   Lu, Jun Q ^a   Brock, R Scott ^a   Jacobs, Kenneth M ^a   Yang, Ping ^b   Hu, Xin Hua ^a  

^a EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MONTE CARLO METHODS; REFLECTION; REFRACTIVE INDEX; WATER;

INTEGRATED SPHERE MEASUREMENT; MICROSPHERES; TRANSMITTANCE;

POLYSTYRENES;

MICROSPHERE; POLYSTYRENE; WATER;

ABSORPTION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSE REFLECTANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MEASUREMENT; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFRACTION INDEX; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SUSPENSION; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MICROSPHERES; MODELS, CHEMICAL; PARTICLE SIZE; POLYSTYRENES; REFRACTOMETRY;

EID: 0346967020     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/48/24/013     Document Type: Article

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