Backscatter signatures of biological aerosols in the infrared

Applied Optics

Volumn 51, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1836-1842

  Thrush, Evan ^a   Salciccioli, Nicolas ^a   Brown, David M ^a   Siegrist, Karen ^a   Brown, Andrea M ^a   Thomas, Michael E ^a   Boggs, Nathan ^a   Carter, Christopher C ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; BACKSCATTERING; OPTICAL RADAR; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

BACKSCATTER CROSS SECTION; BIOLOGICAL AEROSOL; LIGHT DETECTION AND RANGING SYSTEMS; MODEL CALCULATIONS; MODEL-BASED PREDICTION; OPTICAL CROSS SECTIONS; OPTICAL SIGNATURES; THEORETICAL MODELING;

INFRARED RADIATION;

AEROSOL; ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTERIUM; CALIBRATION; CHEMISTRY; INFRARED RADIATION; METABOLISM; OPTICS; PARTICLE SIZE; REFRACTOMETRY; STATISTICAL MODEL; THEORETICAL MODEL;

AEROSOLS; BACTERIA; BACTERIOPHAGES; CALIBRATION; INFRARED RAYS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; PARTICLE SIZE; REFRACTOMETRY;

EID: 84860137619     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.51.001836     Document Type: Article

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