Comment on the modified Beer-Lambert law for scattering media

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 49, Issue 14, 2004, Pages

  Sassaroli, Angelo ^a   Fantini, Sergio ^a  

^a Tufts University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEER-LAMBERT LAW; OPTICAL SIGNAL; SCATTERING MEDIA;

ABSORPTION; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; SCATTERING; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

CALCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ILLUMINATION; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION ABSORPTION; RADIATION SCATTERING; RADIOFREQUENCY RADIATION; REVIEW;

BIOPHYSICS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHOTONS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SPECTROSCOPY, NEAR-INFRARED; STATISTICS;

EID: 4344660240     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/49/14/N07     Document Type: Review

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