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At its simplest, there are but two fates for light that is incident upon a material: either the light is absorbed within the material or it is not.
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Walsh, J.T. (2010). Basic Interactions of Light with Tissue. In: Welch, A., van Gemert, M. (eds) Optical-Thermal Response of Laser-Irradiated Tissue. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-8831-4_2
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