Flux vector formulation for photon propagation in the biological tissue

Optics Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 19, 2007, Pages 2837-2839

  Cong, W ^a   Cong, A ^a   Shen, H ^a   Liu, Y ^a   Wang, G ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; METHODOLOGY; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; PHOTON; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION SCATTERING; RADIOMETRY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHOTONS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL;

OPTICAL IMAGING APPLICATIONS; PHOTON FLUX VECTOR; PHOTON PROPAGATION; VISIBLE LIGHT SPECTRUM;

INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PHOTONS; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; WAVE PROPAGATION;

TISSUE;

EID: 38449103047     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: 15394794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.32.002837     Document Type: Article

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