Characterization of irradiated nails in terms of depolarizing Mueller matrix decompositions

Sergey SAVENKOV; Alexander V. PRIEZZHEV; Yevgen OBEREMOK; Sergey SHOLOM; Ivan KOLOMIETS

doi:10.1007/s12200-017-0727-3

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