Perturbation model for light propagation through diffusive layered media

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 50, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 2159-2166

  Martelli, Fabrizio ^a   Del Bianco, Samuele ^a   Zaccanti, Giovanni ^a  

^a INFM   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; APPROXIMATION THEORY; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES;

DIFFUSIVE LAYERED MEDIA; FEASIBILITY; FUNCTIONAL IMAGING; INHOMOGENEITIES;

LIGHT PROPAGATION;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; DIFFUSION; EXPERIMENTATION; FEASIBILITY STUDY; GEOMETRY; IMAGING; LIGHT; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THEORY; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVALUATION; HUMAN; LINEAR ENERGY TRANSFER; METHODOLOGY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOMETRY; STATISTICAL MODEL; VALIDATION STUDY;

ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIGHT; LINEAR ENERGY TRANSFER; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOMETRY; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 22844433923     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/50/9/016     Document Type: Article

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