The transmission of radiation through a spatially stochastic medium

Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer

Volumn 101, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 29-53

  Williams, M M R ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Correlation function; Random; Smoothing; Stochastic

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; BRAIN; CORRELATION METHODS; IRRADIATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; RANDOM PROCESSES; TOMOGRAPHY;

CORRELATION FUNCTION; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; SMOOTHING; STOCHASTIC MEDIUM;

RADIATION;

BOUNDARY CONDITION; CORRELATION; STOCHASTICITY;

EID: 33646364301     PISSN: 00224073     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jqsrt.2005.11.004     Document Type: Article

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