The use of India ink in tissue-simulating phantoms

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 26, 2010, Pages 26854-26865

  Di Ninni, Paola ^a   Martelli, Fabrizio ^a   Zaccanti, Giovanni ^a  

^a Dipartimento di Fisica   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; ABSORPTION SPECTRA; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; SOLAR RADIATION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ABSORPTION COEFFICIENTS; COLLIMATED TRANSMITTANCE; EXTINCTION COEFFICIENTS; FLUENCE RATES; SMALL CONCENTRATION; SMALL VARIATIONS; SPECTROPHOTOMETRIC MEASUREMENTS; VISIBLE AND NEAR INFRARED;

INK;

BIOMIMETIC MATERIAL; CARBON; INK;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; IMAGE QUALITY; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; PHOTOMETRY; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY;

BIOMIMETIC MATERIALS; CARBON; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; MATERIALS TESTING; NEPHELOMETRY AND TURBIDIMETRY; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 78650555808     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.026854     Document Type: Article

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