Light diffusion model for determination of optical properties of rectangular parallelepiped highly scattering media

Applied Optics

Volumn 46, Issue 14, 2007, Pages 2649-2655

  Taniguchi, Jun ^a   Murata, Hiroshi ^a   Okamura, Yasuyuki ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PHOTONS;

PARALLELEPIPED MEDIA; PHOTON DIFFUSION PROPAGATION; SCATTERING COEFFICIENTS;

LIGHT SCATTERING;

EID: 34250751300     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.46.002649     Document Type: Article

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