Recovery of turbidity free fluorescence from measured fluorescence: An experimental approach

Optics Express

Volumn 11, Issue 24, 2003, Pages 3320-3331

  Biswal, Nrusingh C ^a   Gupta, Sharad ^a   Ghosh, Nirmalya ^b   Pradhan, Asima ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR   (India)

^b RAJA RAMANNA CENTRE FOR ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BIOLUMINESCENCE; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIGHT SCATTERING; MICROSTRUCTURE; PHOTONS; PORPHYRINS; TISSUE; TURBIDITY;

FLUOROPHORES; INTRINSIC FLUORESCENCE; OPTICAL TRANSPORT PARAMETERS; PHOTON MIGRATION; POLARIZED ELASTIC SCATTERING SPECTRA; POLARIZED EMISSIONS;

FLUORESCENCE;

EID: 2942731417     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.11.003320     Document Type: Article

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