Electric field Monte Carlo simulations of focal field distributions produced by tightly focused laser beams in tissues

Biomedical Optics Express

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 278-290

  Hayakawa, Carole K ^a,c   Potma, Eric O ^b,c   Venugopalan, Vasan ^a,c  

^a University of California at Irvine   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPOLARIZATION; DIFFRACTION; LASER BEAMS; LASER OPTICS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; SCATTERING; TISSUE; TURBIDITY;

DIFFRACTION THEORY; ELECTRIC FIELD PROPAGATION; FOCAL FIELD DISTRIBUTIONS; FOCAL FIELDS; FOCAL VOLUME; FOCUSED BEAMS; FOCUSED FIELDS; FOCUSING LENS; MONTE CARLO APPROACH; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; NONLINEAR MICROSCOPY; NUMERICAL APERTURE; OPTICAL SCATTERING; SCATTERING CO-EFFICIENT; SCATTERING PROPERTY; SINGLE SCATTERING; TIGHTLY FOCUSED LASER BEAM; TURBID MEDIA; TURBID MEDIUM;

ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS;

EID: 79952597594     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21567085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/BOE.2.000278     Document Type: Article

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