Study of photon migration with various sourcedetector separations in near-infrared spectroscopic brain imaging based on threedimensional monte carlo modeling

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 21, 2005, Pages 8339-8348

  Lee, Cheng Kuang ^a   Sun, Chia Wei ^b   Lee, Po Lei ^c   Lee, Hsiang Chieh ^a   Yang, C C ^a   Jiang, Cho Pei ^b   Tong, Yuh Ping ^b   Yeh, Tzu Chen ^d   Hsieh, Jen Chuen ^d  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d TAIPEI VETERANS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; BRAIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

GRAY MATTER; MONTE CARLO CODE; PHOTON MIGRATION;

PHOTONS;

EID: 26844506799     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.008339     Document Type: Article

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