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JOURNAL OF THE OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA A-OPTICS IMAGE SCIENCE AND VISION
Volume 28, Issue 8, Pages 1765-1775Publisher
OPTICAL SOC AMER
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.28.001765
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In this paper the expression for the radiative transfer equation (RTE) commonly used when describing light propagation in biological tissues is derived directly from the equation of energy conservation of Maxwell's equations (Poynting's theorem) by making use of a volume-averaged expression for the time-averaged flow of energy. The derivation is presented step by step with Maxwell's equations as the starting point, analyzing all approximations taken in order to arrive at the expression of the scalar RTE employed in biomedical applications, which neglects particle nonsphericity and orientation, depolarization, and coherence effects. (C) 2011 Optical Society of America
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