Laser light scattering in turbid media Part I: Experimental and simulated results for the spatial intensity distribution

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 17, 2007, Pages 10649-10665

  Berrocal, Edouard ^a   Sedarsky, David L ^a   Paciaroni, Megan E ^b   Meglinski, Igor V ^c   Linne, Mark A ^a,d  

^a LUND INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b Spectral Energies   (United States)

^c CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LASER BEAMS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; POLYSTYRENES;

OPTICAL DEPTHS; PHASE FUNCTION; SPATIAL INTENSITY DISTRIBUTION;

LIGHT SCATTERING;

EID: 34548079059     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.010649     Document Type: Article

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