Forward-adjoint fluorescence model: Monte Carlo integration and experimental validation

Applied Optics

Volumn 36, Issue 25, 1997, Pages 6513-6519

  Crilly, Richard J ^a   Cheong, Wai Fung ^b   Wilson, Brian ^c   Spears, J Richard ^a  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Photonics Research Ontario   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adjoint Boltzmann equation; Fluorescence model; Importance function; Monte Carlo

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042930748     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.36.006513     Document Type: Article

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