Measurements of wavelength dependent scattering and backscattering coefficients by low-coherence spectroscopy

Journal of Biomedical Optics

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Bosschaart, Nienke ^a   Faber, Dirk J ^a   Leeuwen, Ton G Van ^a,b   Aalders, Maurice C G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

backscattering; coherence; Mie theory; scattering; spectroscopy; tissues

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING COEFFICIENTS; COHERENCE; LARGE WAVELENGTH RANGE; LOW-COHERENCE; MIE THEORY; NONINVASIVE METHODS; OPTICAL TECHNIQUE; POLYSTYRENE SPHERES; QUANTITATIVE MEASUREMENT; SCATTERING PROPERTY;

BACKSCATTERING; HISTOLOGY; POLYSTYRENES;

COHERENT SCATTERING;

MICROSPHERE; POLYSTYRENE DERIVATIVE;

LETTER; LIGHT RELATED PHENOMENA; METHODOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; RADIATION SCATTERING; SPECTROSCOPY;

MICROSPHERES; OPTICAL PHENOMENA; PARTICLE SIZE; POLYSTYRENES; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

EID: 79952182956     PISSN: 10833668     EISSN: 15602281     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.3553005     Document Type: Article

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