Measurement of the local optical properties of turbid media by differential path-length spectroscopy

Applied Optics

Volumn 43, Issue 15, 2004, Pages 3048-3054

  Amelink, Arjen ^a   Sterenborg, Henricus J C M ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTIMIZATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROBABILITY; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS; TISSUE; TURBIDITY;

DIFFUSE REFLECTANCE (DRS); PROBABILITY OF DETECTION; SINGLE FIBERS; TURBID MEDIA;

OPTICAL PROPERTIES;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; EVALUATION; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FIBER OPTICS; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; PHOTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECTROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE; VALIDATION STUDY;

ALGORITHMS; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FIBER OPTICS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; NEPHELOMETRY AND TURBIDIMETRY; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL;

EID: 2542517818     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.43.003048     Document Type: Article

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