Effect of the refractive index mismatch on light propagation through diffusive layered media

Physical Review E - Statistical Physics, Plasmas, Fluids, and Related Interdisciplinary Topics

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 10-

  Martelli, Fabrizio ^a   Del Bianco, Samuele ^a   Zaccanti, Giovanni ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CELLS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MEDICAL IMAGING; MONTE CARLO METHODS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SKIN; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS; TISSUE; TOMOGRAPHY;

DIFFUSE-DIFFUSE INTERFACES; MICROSCOPIC PROCESSES; REFRACTIVE INDEX MISMATCH; TIME DEPENDENT DIFFUSION EQUATION;

LIGHT PROPAGATION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; EVALUATION; HUMAN; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; PHYSIOLOGY; REFRACTOMETRY; VALIDATION STUDY;

ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIGHT; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; REFRACTOMETRY; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL;

EID: 37649028779     PISSN: 1063651X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.70.011907     Document Type: Article

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