Depolarization of light in biological tissues

Optics and Lasers in Engineering

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 850-854

  Fixler, Dror ^a   Ankri, Rinat ^a   Duadi, Hamootal ^a   Lubart, Rachel ^a   Zalevsky, Zeev ^a  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Flow; Multi Scattering; Phantoms; Polarization; Tissues

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL TISSUES; BROADBAND LIGHT; FLOW; INTEGRATION TIME; LASER ILLUMINATION; MULTI SCATTERINGS; PHANTOMS; PHOTOTHERAPY; POLARIZATION PLANES; POLARIZATION STATE; REDUCED SCATTERING COEFFICIENTS; TISSUE THICKNESS; TURKEY MEAT;

BLOOD VESSELS; FLOW RATE; PARALLEL FLOW; TISSUE;

POLARIZATION;

EID: 84857922581     PISSN: 01438166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.optlaseng.2012.01.011     Document Type: Article

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