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Radiative Transfer of Light in Strongly Scattering Media

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Radiative transfer provides a complete description of absorption, scattering, and radiation of light in a multiple scattering medium (Chandrasekhar 1960; Ishimaru 1999; Van de Hulst 2012). Consequently, radiative transfer is important for several applications such as neutron transport (Bell and Glasstone 1970; Case and Zweifel 1967; Lewis and Miller 1984), astrophysics (Peraiah 2002; Sobolev 2017), geophysics (Tsang et al. 1985; Mobley 1994; Kirk 1994; Thomas and Stamnes 2002; Kokhanovsky 2006b; Marshak and Davis 2005; Mishchenko et al. 2006; Mishchenko 2014), heat transfer (Modest 2013), biomedical optics (Welch et al. 2011; Wang and Wu 2012), and computer graphics (Jensen 2001).

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A. D. Kim acknowledges support from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (FA9550-17-1-0238).

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Ilan, B., Kim, A.D. (2019). Radiative Transfer of Light in Strongly Scattering Media. In: Kokhanovsky, A. (eds) Springer Series in Light Scattering. Springer Series in Light Scattering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03445-0_2

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