Comparison of radiative transport, Monte Carlo, and diffusion forward models for small animal optical tomography

2007 4th IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: From Nano to Macro - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 824-827

  Rasmussen, John C ^a   Pan, Tianshu ^a   Joshi, Amit ^a   Wareing, Todd ^b   McGhee, John ^b   Sevick Muraca, Eva M ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Transpire Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMISSION PHOTONS; TRANSPORT LIMITED SYSTEMS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION; HEAT RADIATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS;

OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 36348973436     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISBI.2007.356979     Document Type: Conference Paper

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