Nearfield polarization effects on light propagation in random media

Optics InfoBase Conference Papers

Volumn , Issue , 1996, Pages 20-25

  Ostermeyer, M R ^a,b   Stephens, D V ^c   Wang, L ^d   Jacques, S L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

^c RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Light propagation in tissues; Medical and biological imaging; Polarization

Indexed keywords

INCIDENT LIGHT; LASER BEAMS; LIGHT PROPAGATION; MEDICAL IMAGING;

BACK-SCATTERED; LIGHT PROPAGATION IN TISSUE; LINEARLY POLARIZED LASERS; MEASUREMENTS OF; MEDICAL AND BIOLOGICAL IMAGING; NEAR FIELDS; POLARIZATION EFFECT; POLARIZED COMPONENTS; POLARIZED LASER BEAMS; RANDOM MEDIA;

POLARIZATION;

EID: 85135528193     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21622701     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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