Light transport in tissue by 3D Monte Carlo: Influence of boundary voxelization

Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine

Volumn 89, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 14-23

  Binzoni, T ^a,b   Leung, T S ^c   Giust, R ^d   Rufenacht D ^b   Gandjbakhche, A H ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d CNRS   (France)

^e EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomedical optics; Monte Carlo; Photon transport; Tissue phantom; Voxels

Indexed keywords

LIGHT TRANSMISSION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OPTICS; PHOTONICS;

BOUNDARY VOXELIZATION; PHOTON TRANSPORT; TISSUE PHANTOMS; VOXELS;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

ALGORITHM; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; LIGHT INTENSITY; LIGHT SCATTERING; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOM; PHOTON; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TRABECULAR BONE;

EID: 37449008727     PISSN: 01692607     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cmpb.2007.10.008     Document Type: Article

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