Abstract

The objective of this research is to develop non-invasive, uncalibrated methods for measuring the particle size distributions within optically dense polydisperse media. Our work is subdivided into addressing two goals. First, we must measure isotropic scattering coefficients of polydisperse media and successfully compare them with values predicted by theory. Secondly, from multi-wavelength measurements of scattering coefficients, we must recover the particle size distribution. We describe these two steps as forward and inverse problems.

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