Light transport in trabecular bone: Monte Carlo simulation based on 3D triangle meshes

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6142 II, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Margallo Balbás, Eduardo ^a   French, Patrick J ^a   Wieringa, Peter A ^b  

^a Electronic Instrumentation Laboratory   (Netherlands)

^b Aerosp Man Mach Systems Consulting   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cancellous Bone; Heterogeneous Turbid Media; Light Transport in Tissue; Monte Carlo; OCT

Indexed keywords

BIOPSY; BONE; COHERENT LIGHT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; LASER SURGERY; MONTE CARLO METHODS; MORPHOLOGY;

CANCELLOUS BONE; LIGHT TRANSPORT; LIGHT TRANSPORT IN TISSUE; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY (OCT); TRABECULAR BONE;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 33745372872     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.652237     Document Type: Conference Paper

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