Light propagation in biological tissues containing an absorbing plate

Applied Optics

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 555-563

  Kim, Arnold D ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BIOLOGY; GREEN'S FUNCTION; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT SCATTERING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TISSUE;

ABSORBING PLATE; BABINETS PRINCIPLE; BIOLOGICAL TISSUES; FOKKER PLANCK EQUATION; RADIATIVE TRANSPORT EQUATION;

LIGHT PROPAGATION;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELLULAR, SUBCELLULAR AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; LIGHT; OPTICS; RADIATION SCATTERING; THEORETICAL MODEL;

BIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; LIGHT; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPTICS; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 1142303779     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.43.000555     Document Type: Article

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