Simple two-layer reflectance model for biological tissue applications

Applied Optics

Volumn 48, Issue 18, 2009, Pages 3490-3496

  Mantis, George ^a   Zonios, George ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

REFLECTION;

ABSORPTION CO-EFFICIENT; BIOLOGICAL TISSUES; DIFFUSE REFLECTANCE; FIBEROPTIC PROBES; LAYER MODEL; REFLECTANCE MODEL; SCATTERING LAYER; TISSUE PHANTOM;

TISSUE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVALUATION; FUNCTIONS OF THE SKIN AND ITS APPENDAGES; HUMAN; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; PHOTOMETRY; RADIATION SCATTERING; VALIDATION STUDY;

ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; LIGHT; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEPHELOMETRY AND TURBIDIMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SKIN PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA;

EID: 67849118684     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.48.003490     Document Type: Article

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