Numerical study of reflectance imaging using a parallel Monte Carlo method

Medical Physics

Volumn 34, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 2939-2948

  Chen, Cheng ^a   Lu, Jun Q ^a   Li, Kai ^b   Zhao, Suisheng ^c   Brock, R Scott ^a   Hu, Xin Hua ^a  

^a EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

^c CISCO SYSTEMS   (United States)

Author keywords

Monte Carlo simulation; Optical imaging; Reflectance imaging

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; CLUSTER COMPUTING; HISTOLOGY; INFRARED DEVICES; LIGHT SCATTERING; MESSAGE PASSING; NUMERICAL METHODS; OPTICAL VARIABLES CONTROL; PHANTOMS; REFLECTION; TISSUE; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

HETEROGENEOUS TISSUES; MESSAGE PASSING INTERFACE; OPTICAL IMAGING; RADIATIVE TRANSFER EQUATIONS; REFLECTANCE IMAGING; REFLECTION AND TRANSMISSION; SINGLE SCATTERING ALBEDO; VISIBLE AND NEAR INFRARED;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CAMERA; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTRAST; ILLUMINATION; IMAGING; INFRARED RADIATION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; REFLECTOMETRY; SIMULATION; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; VALIDATION PROCESS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMAN; IMAGING PHANTOM; LIGHT; RADIATION SCATTERING;

DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMANS; LIGHT; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 34347373083     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2745241     Document Type: Article

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