Controlled Monte Carlo method for light propagation in tissue of semi-infinite geometry

Applied Optics

Volumn 46, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1597-1603

  Chen, Nanguang ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT SCATTERING; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PHOTONS; TISSUE;

PHOTON MIGRATION; PHOTON TRAJECTORIES; SCATTERING ANGLES; SEMI-INFINITE GEOMETRY;

LIGHT PROPAGATION;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHOTOMETRY; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION SCATTERING; RADIOMETRY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIGHT; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NEPHELOMETRY AND TURBIDIMETRY; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 34247506892     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.46.001597     Document Type: Conference Paper

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