Fully automated time domain spectrometer for the absorption and scattering characterization of diffusive media

Review of Scientific Instruments

Volumn 78, Issue 5, 2007, Pages

  Pifferi, Antonio ^a   Torricelli, Alessandro ^b   Taroni, Paola ^b   Comelli, Daniela ^b   Bassi, Andrea ^b   Cubeddu, Rinaldo ^b  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT SCATTERING; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SURFACE DIFFUSION; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

DIFFUSIVE MEDIA; SINGLE-PHOTON COUNTING; TIME DOMAIN SPECTROMETERS; TRANSMITTANCE MEASUREMENTS;

SPECTROMETERS;

ABSORPTION; ARTICLE; DIFFUSION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; PHOTOMETRY; PHOTON; RADIATION SCATTERING; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECTROSCOPY;

ABSORPTION; DIFFUSION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIGHT; NEPHELOMETRY AND TURBIDIMETRY; PHOTOMETRY; PHOTONS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

EID: 34249950351     PISSN: 00346748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2735567     Document Type: Article

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