Effective Mie scattering of a spherical fractal aggregate and its application in turbid media

Applied Optics

Volumn 43, Issue 14, 2004, Pages 2925-2929

  Deng, Xiaoyuan ^a,b   Gan, Xiaosong ^a   Gu, Min ^a  

^a SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b SOUTH CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FRACTALS; IMAGE QUALITY; MICROSCOPES; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PHOTONS; TISSUE; TURBIDITY;

FRACTAL AGGREGATES; MIE SCATTERING; PHOTON MIGRATION;

LIGHT SCATTERING;

EID: 2542496839     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.43.002925     Document Type: Article

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