Photon diffusion coefficient in scattering and absorbing media

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

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1106-1110

  Pierrat, Romain ^a   Greffet, Jean Jacques ^a   Carminati, Rémi ^a  

^a ECOLE CENTRALE PARIS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSION; LIGHT PROPAGATION; LIGHT SCATTERING; MODAL ANALYSIS;

ABSORBING MEDIA; PHOTON DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; RADIATIVE TRANSFER EQUATION; SCATTERING MEDIA; STEADY-STATE TRANSPORT; TIME-DEPENDENT TRANSPORT;

PHOTONS;

ABSORPTION; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION; EVALUATION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; METHODOLOGY; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; PHOTOMETRY; PHOTON; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION SCATTERING; RADIOMETRY;

ABSORPTION; ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEPHELOMETRY AND TURBIDIMETRY; PHOTONS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL;

EID: 33745279127     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.23.001106     Document Type: Article

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