Effects of the surface boundary on the determination of the optical properties of a turbid medium with time-resolved reflectance

Applied Optics

Volumn 45, Issue 19, 2006, Pages 4756-4764

  Laidevant, Aurélie ^a   Silva, Anabela Da ^a   Berger, Michel ^a   Dinten, Jean Marc ^a  

^a CEA GRENOBLE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSION; EQUATIONS OF STATE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PHOTONS; PROBLEM SOLVING; REFLECTION;

ELECTRONIC DETECTION; SEMI-INFINITE MEDIUM; SURFACE MODELS; TIME-CORRELATED SINGLE-PHOTON-COUNTING CHAIN;

SURFACE MEASUREMENT;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COLLOID; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION; DRUG MIXTURE; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; PHOTOMETRY; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; SURFACE PROPERTY;

COLLOIDS; COMPLEX MIXTURES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION; LIGHT; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, CHEMICAL; NEPHELOMETRY AND TURBIDIMETRY; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 33745404449     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.45.004756     Document Type: Article

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