Light diffusion through a turbid parallelepiped

Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision

Volumn 22, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1883-1888

  Kienle, Alwin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; DIFFUSION IN GASES; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; EXTRAPOLATION; LIGHT PROPAGATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; TISSUE; TURBIDITY;

DIFFUSION EQUATION; FICK'S LAW; RADIATIVE TRANSPORT EQUATION; TIME-RESOLVED TRANSMITTANCE; TURBID PARALLELPIPED;

LIGHT SCATTERING;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; DIFFUSION; EVALUATION; HUMAN; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; PHOTOMETRY; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION SCATTERING; RADIOMETRY;

ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; DIFFUSION; HUMANS; LIGHT; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEPHELOMETRY AND TURBIDIMETRY; PHOTOMETRY; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL;

EID: 25444478904     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.22.001883     Document Type: Article

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