Photon diffusion near the point-of-entry in anisotropically scattering turbid media

Nature Communications

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Vitkin, Edward ^a   Turzhitsky, Vladimir ^a   Qiu, Le ^a   Guo, Lianyu ^a   Itzkan, Irving ^a   Hanlon, Eugene B ^a,b   Perelman, Lev T ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; DIFFUSION; LIGHT SCATTERING; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; PHOTON; PREDICTION; PROCESS DESIGN; TURBIDITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EPITHELIUM; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR IMAGING; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PATHOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; SKIN TUMOR; SPECTROSCOPY; STATISTICS;

DIAGNOSTIC AGENT;

ANISOTROPY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION; EPITHELIUM; HUMANS; MOLECULAR IMAGING; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHOTONS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

EID: 84455174795     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1599     Document Type: Article

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