Real-time method for fitting time-resolved reflectance and transmittance measurements with a Monte Carlo model

Applied Optics

Volumn 37, Issue 13, 1998, Pages 2774-2780

  Pifferi, Antonio ^a,b   Taroni, Paola ^b   Valentini, Gianluca ^b   Andersson Engels, Stefan ^a  

^a LUND INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

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EID: 0348071634     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.37.002774     Document Type: Article

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