Numerical evaluation of temporal focusing characteristics in transparent and scattering media

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 4937-4948

  Dana, Hod ^a   Shoham, Shy ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FOCUSING;

ANALYTICAL APPROXIMATION; BRAIN TISSUE; GEOMETRICAL OPTICS MODELS; MONTE CARLO; MULTIPHOTONS; NONLINEAR MICROSCOPY; NUMERICAL EVALUATIONS; OPTICAL GEOMETRY; SCATTERING MEDIA; SCATTERING SIMULATIONS; SIMPLE APPROACH; SIMULATION STRATEGIES; TEMPORAL FOCUSING;

SCATTERING;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; FLUORESCENCE; IMAGE QUALITY; LIGHT; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; OPTICS; RADIATION SCATTERING; REPRODUCIBILITY; TIME;

FLUORESCENCE; LIGHT; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 79952582044     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.004937     Document Type: Article

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