Perturbation Monte Carlo methods to solve inverse photon migration problems in heterogeneous tissues

Optics Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 17, 2001, Pages 1335-1337

  Hayakawa, Carole K ^a,b   Spanier, Jerome ^a,b   Bevilacqua, Frédéric ^b   Dunn, Andrew K ^b,c   You, Joon S ^b   Tromberg, Bruce J ^b   Venugopalan, Vasan ^b  

^a Claremont Res Inst Appl Math S   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHOTON MIGRATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; INVERSE PROBLEMS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; PROBLEM SOLVING; TISSUE;

PHOTONS;

EID: 0041500358     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.26.001335     Document Type: Article

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