Optical fluence distribution study in tissue in dark-field confocal photoacoustic microscopy using a modified Monte Carlo convolution method

Applied Optics

Volumn 48, Issue 17, 2009, Pages 3204-3211

  Xie, Zhixing ^a   Wang, Lihong V ^b   Zhang, Hao F ^a  

^a University of Wisconsin Milwaukee   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONVOLUTION; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; PHOTOACOUSTIC MICROSCOPY; PHOTONS; TISSUE;

CONVOLUTION METHODS; DIFFUSE PHOTONS; INCIDENT ANGLES; OPTICAL FLUENCES; OPTICAL FOCUS; ROTATIONAL INVARIANCES; TISSUE SURFACE; ULTRASONIC AXIS;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

ACOUSTICS; ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; DERMIS; EPIDERMIS; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MICROSCOPY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHOTON;

ACOUSTICS; ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; DERMIS; EPIDERMIS; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHOTONS;

EID: 67650708686     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.48.003204     Document Type: Article

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