Numerical simulations of light scattering by red blood cells

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 13-18

  Karlsson, Anders ^a,b   He, Jiangping ^a,c,d,e   Swartling, Johannes ^a,f,g   Andersson Engels, Stefan ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^c ZHEJIANG NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^f LUND INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^g POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Biological tissues; Blood; Optical propagation in nonhoinogeneous media; Optical scattering

Indexed keywords

BLOOD; CELLS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

DISCRETE DIPOLE APPROXIMATION (DDA); FINITE-DIFFERENCE TIME-DOMAIN METHOD (FDTD); RED BLOOD CELL; RYTOV APPROXIMATION;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BLOOD CELL; DISCRETE DIPOLE APPROXIMATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; ERYTHROCYTE; ERYTHROCYTE SHAPE; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LIGHT SCATTERING; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; OPTICS; PROBABILITY;

EID: 11244267005     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2004.839634     Document Type: Article

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