Effect of surface roughness on determination of tissue optical properties obtained by diffusion approximation

Applied Optics

Volumn 46, Issue 17, 2007, Pages 3649-3652

  Meixiu, Sun ^a   Chunping, Zhang ^a   Zhaofeng, Hao ^a   Jianguo, Tian ^a  

^a NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; DIFFUSION; LIGHT SCATTERING; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

DIFFUSE REFLECTION; NYLON BAR;

TISSUE;

ABSORPTION; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; DIFFUSION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; IMAGE PROCESSING; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; OPTICS; REFRACTOMETRY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURFACE PROPERTY;

ABSORPTION; ALGORITHMS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DIFFUSION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIGHT; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OPTICS; REFRACTOMETRY; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 34547525007     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.46.003649     Document Type: Article

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