The FDTD approach applied to light scattering from single biological cells

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 5, Issue 29, 2004, Pages 162-168

  Tanev, Stoyan ^a   Sun, Wenbo ^b,e   Zhang, Richard ^c   Ridsdale, Andrew ^d  

^a Vitesse Re Skilling Canada   (Canada)

^b HAMPTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Optiwave Corporation   (Canada)

^d OTTAWA HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^e HAMPTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Finite Difference Time Domain (FDTD) method; Scattering; Single cell; Software

Indexed keywords

CELLS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; FABRICATION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; LIGHT PROPAGATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

ANGULAR DISTRIBUTION; EXTRA CELLULAR MEDIUM; PHOTONICS DESIGN AUTOMATION (PDA); SINGLE CELL;

LIGHT SCATTERING;

EID: 12144260162     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.578382     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (9)

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