Shape based Monte Carlo code for light transport in complex heterogeneous tissues

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 21, 2007, Pages 14086-14098

  Margallo Balbás, Eduardo ^a   French, Patrick J ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; LIGHT SCATTERING; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; RADIATIVE TRANSFER;

HETEROGENEOUS TISSUES; MONTE CARLO CODES; PHOTON SURFACE INTERSECTIONS;

BONE;

EID: 35348947559     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.014086     Document Type: Article

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