Monte Carlo and discrete-ordinate simulations of spectral radiances in a coupled air-tissue system

Applied Optics

Volumn 46, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 2333-2350

  Hestenes, Kjersti ^a   Nielsen, Kristian P ^a   Zhao, Lu ^a   Stamnes, Jakob J ^a   Stamnes, Knut ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RAYLEIGH SCATTERING;

AIR-TISSUE SYSTEM; COUPLED AIR-TISSUE (CAT) SYSTEM; SKIN TISSUE; SPECTRAL RADIANCES;

TISSUE;

AIR; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FUNCTIONS OF THE SKIN AND ITS APPENDAGES; HUMAN; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHOTOMETRY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION SCATTERING; RADIOMETRY; RELATIVE BIOLOGIC EFFECTIVENESS;

AIR; ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; LIGHT; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NEPHELOMETRY AND TURBIDIMETRY; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOMETRY; RELATIVE BIOLOGICAL EFFECTIVENESS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SKIN PHYSIOLOGY;

EID: 34250772395     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.46.002333     Document Type: Article

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