Radiative transport in the delta-P1 approximation: Accuracy of fluence rate and optical penetration depth predictions in turbid semi-infinite media

Journal of Biomedical Optics

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 632-647

  Carp, Stefan A ^a   Prahl, Scott A ^b   Venugopalan, Vasan ^a  

^a University of California at Irvine   (United States)

^b PROVIDENCE ST VINCENT MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Collimation; Diffusion; Light; Photons

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; EVALUATION; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; PHOTOMETRY; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION SCATTERING; RADIOMETRY; STATISTICAL MODEL; VALIDATION STUDY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; LIGHT; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEPHELOMETRY AND TURBIDIMETRY; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

FLUENCE RATE; OPTICAL PENETRATION DEPTH; RADIATIVE TRANSPORT;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

EID: 2942717111     PISSN: 10833668     EISSN: 15602281     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.1695412     Document Type: Article

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