Fourth order perturbation theory for the diffusion equation: Continuous wave results for absorbing defects

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 7174, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Sassaroli, Angelo ^a   Martelli, Fabrizio ^b   Fantini, Sergio ^a  

^a Tufts University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS WAVES; DIFFERENT GEOMETRIES; DIFFUSE OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHIES; DIFFUSION EQUATIONS; FIRST ORDERS; FOURTH-ORDER PERTURBATION THEORIES; HETEROGENEOUS MEDIAS; MONTE CARLO SIMULATIONS; PADE APPROXIMANTS; PERTURBATION THEORIES; REDUCED SCATTERING COEFFICIENTS;

ABSORPTION; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; LIGHT PROPAGATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS;

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 65349117539     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.809070     Document Type: Conference Paper

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