Scaling method for fast Monte Carlo simulation of diffuse reflectance spectra from multilayered turbid media

Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1011-1025

  Liu, Quan ^a   Ramanujam, Nirmala ^a  

^a Duke University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OPTICAL ANISOTROPY; PHOTONS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; TURBIDITY;

DIFFUSE REFLECTANCE SPECTRA; MULTILAYERED TURBID MEDIA; ROOT-MEAN-SQUARE ERROR;

LIGHT REFLECTION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION; DRUG MIXTURE; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHOTOMETRY; RADIATION SCATTERING; RADIOMETRY; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECTROSCOPY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; COMPLEX MIXTURES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NEPHELOMETRY AND TURBIDIMETRY; RADIOMETRY; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

EID: 34248326122     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.24.001011     Document Type: Article

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