Photon migration in turbid media: A finite-element solution for the most favorable path

Optical Engineering

Volumn 41, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 2577-2581

  Zhou, Jun ^a   Bai, Jing ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Diffusion equation; Finite elements; Most favorable path; Photon migration

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT SCATTERING; NUMERICAL METHODS; OBJECT RECOGNITION; PHOTONS; TOMOGRAPHY;

DIFFUSION EQUATION; MOST FAVORABLE PATH; PHOTON MIGRATION;

LIGHT PROPAGATION;

EID: 0036810715     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.1499973     Document Type: Article

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