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. 2011 Sep 13;2(10):2784–2791. doi: 10.1364/BOE.2.002784

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Fig. 1 — (a) Plane wave illumination of a blood smear; k_i and k_s are the incident and scattered wave vectors. (b) The discocyte modeled by subtracting two Gaussian surfaces from the top and bottom of a cylinder. c) A flat top Gaussian describes deflated cells as described in Section. 4.