Effects of turbid media optical properties on object visibility in subsurface polarization imaging

Applied Optics

Volumn 45, Issue 22, 2006, Pages 5532-5541

  Nothdurft, Ralph E ^a   Yao, Gang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; ANISOTROPY; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; LIGHT POLARIZATION; TURBIDITY;

ABSORPTION COEFFICIENT; OBJECT VISIBILITY; SUBSURFACE POLARIZATION;

OPTICAL PROPERTIES;

EID: 33744514163     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.45.005532     Document Type: Article

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