Perturbation model to predict the effect of spatially varying absorptive inhomogeneities in diffusing media

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 68, Issue 2 1, 2003, Pages

  De Nicola, S ^a   Esposito, R ^b,c   Lepore, M ^d  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI OTTICA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^c INFM   (Italy)

^d SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXTRAPOLATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; LASER TISSUE INTERACTION; LIGHT SCATTERING; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MEDICAL IMAGING; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

ABSORPTIVE INHOMOGENEITIES; DIFFUSING MEDIA; DIFFUSION EQUATION; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION;

LIGHT ABSORPTION;

EID: 37649028411     PISSN: 1063651X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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