Characterization of the reduced scattering coefficient for optically thin samples: Theory and experiments

Journal of Optics A: Pure and Applied Optics

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 725-735

  Garofalakis, Anikitos ^a   Zacharakis, Giannis ^a   Filippidis, George ^a   Sanidas, Elias ^b   Tsiftsis, Dimitris D ^b   Ntziachristos, Vasilis ^c   Papazoglou, Theodore G ^a   Ripoll, Jorge ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE AND LASER   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Diffusion approximation; Optical characterization; Reduced scattering coefficient; Small samples; Time resolved spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; DATA ACQUISITION; DIFFUSION; LIGHT SCATTERING; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; TOMOGRAPHY;

DIFFUSION APPROXIMATION; OPTICAL CHARACTERIZATION; REDUCED SCATTERING COEFFICIENT; SMALL SAMPLES; TIME-RESOLVED SPECTROSCOPY;

OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 3142660641     PISSN: 14644258     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1464-4258/6/7/012     Document Type: Article

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