Light propagation in multilayered scattering media beyond the diffusive regime

Applied Optics

Volumn 46, Issue 13, 2007, Pages 2528-2539

  Elaloufi, Rachid ^a   Arridge, Simon ^a   Pierrat, Romain ^b   Carminati, Rémi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); LIGHT SCATTERING; MONTE CARLO METHODS; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; WAVE EQUATIONS;

ANISOTROPIC SCATTERING; INDEX MISMATCHED INTERFACES; MULTILAYERED GEOMETRY; RADIATIVE TRANSFER EQUATION (RTE);

LIGHT PROPAGATION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; DIFFUSION; HUMAN; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; PHOTOMETRY; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION SCATTERING; RADIOMETRY;

ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; DIFFUSION; HUMANS; LIGHT; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEPHELOMETRY AND TURBIDIMETRY; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 34250360295     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.46.002528     Document Type: Article

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