Formulation of photon diffusion from spherical bioluminescent sources in an infinite homogeneous medium

BioMedical Engineering Online

Volumn 3, Issue , 2004, Pages

  Cong, Wenxiang ^a   Wang, Lihong V ^b   Wang, Ge ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b Texas A and M University   (United States)

Author keywords

Analytical solution; Bioluminescent imaging; Diffusion equation; Green's function; Monte Carlo simulation

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BIOLUMINESCENCE; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIFFUSION; IMAGING SYSTEM; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT SCATTERING; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; OPTICS; PREDICTION; SIMULATION; SOLID; STEADY STATE; SURFACE PROPERTY; THEORY; TIME; TISSUE; TOMOGRAPHY; TURBIDITY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION; LUMINESCENT MEASUREMENTS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PHOTONS; TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 3042652964     PISSN: 1475925X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-925X-3-12     Document Type: Article

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