Penetration depth of linear polarization imaging for two-layer anisotropic samples

Applied Optics

Volumn 50, Issue 23, 2011, Pages 4681-4687

  Liao, Ran ^a   Zeng, Nan ^a   Li, Dongzhi ^a   Yun, Tianliang ^a   He, Yonghong ^a   Ma, Hui ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPIC MEDIA; ANISOTROPY; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; MONTE CARLO METHODS;

CHARACTERISTIC DEPTHS; CLINICAL APPLICATION; DEGREE OF LINEAR POLARIZATION; INCIDENT POLARIZATION; LINEAR POLARIZATION; POLARIZATION IMAGING; POLARIZATION TECHNIQUES; TRANSPORT MEAN FREE PATH;

POLARIZATION;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NEOPLASM; PATHOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; SKIN;

ANISOTROPY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NEOPLASMS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SKIN;

EID: 80051601310     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.50.004681     Document Type: Article

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