Using Monte Carlo simulations to understand the influence of photon propagation on photoacoustic spectroscopic imaging

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6437, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Stantz, Keith M ^a   Liu, Bo ^a   Kruger, Robert A ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OptoSonics Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD PHANTOMS; OPTICAL IMAGING; PHOTOACOUSTIC IMAGING; PHOTON PROPAGATION;

INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT PROPAGATION; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; PHOTONS; TISSUE;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

EID: 34247384060     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.701395     Document Type: Conference Paper

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