Light transport in biological tissue based on the simplified spherical harmonics equations

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 220, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 441-470

  Klose, Alexander D ^a   Larsen, Edward W ^b  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Diffusion equation; Discrete ordinates method; Light propagation; Molecular imaging; Radiative transfer; Scattering media; Spherical harmonics; Tissue optics

Indexed keywords

HARMONIC ANALYSIS; INFRARED DEVICES; LIGHT PROPAGATION; MOLECULAR IMAGING; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SPHERES; TISSUE;

BIOLOGICAL TISSUES; DIFFUSION EQUATIONS; DISCRETE ORDINATES; DISCRETE ORDINATES METHOD; MODELING LIGHT PROPAGATION; SCATTERING MEDIUM; SPHERICAL HARMONICS; SPHERICAL HARMONICS METHOD; TISSUES OPTICS; TRANSPORT METHOD;

DIFFUSION;

EID: 33751009099     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: 10902716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2006.07.007     Document Type: Article

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