Light transport in two-layer tissues

Journal of Biomedical Optics

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2005, Pages

  Kim, Arnold D ^a   Moscoso, Miguel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Backscattering; Green's function; Layered media; Radiative transport equation

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BACKSCATTERING; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; GREEN'S FUNCTION; LIGHT PROPAGATION; NUMERICAL METHODS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES;

LAYERED MEDIA; RADIATIVE TRANSPORT EQUATION;

TISSUE;

EID: 24144491353     PISSN: 10833668     EISSN: 15602281     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.1925227     Document Type: Article

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