Experimental validation of Monte Carlo and finite-element methods for the estimation of the optical path length in inhomogeneous tissue

Applied Optics

Volumn 35, Issue 19, 1996, Pages 3362-3371

  Okada, Eiji ^a,b,c   Schweiger, Martin ^a,b   Arridge, Simon R ^a,b   Firbank, Michael ^a,b   Delpy, David T ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Department of Medical Physics and Engineering ^*  (United Kingdom)

^c KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Finite element method; Light propagation; Monte Carlo method; Time of flight measurement

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001007421     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.35.003362     Document Type: Article

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