A universal numerical treatment of radiative transport equations with differential and integral scattering operators

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6864, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Phillips, Kevin G ^a   Lancellotti, Carlo ^a,b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Fokker Planck equation; Forward scattering approximation; PN method; Radiative transport equation; Tissue light interaction

Indexed keywords

BIO-MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; INFINITE PLANE; NORMAL INCIDENCE; NUMERICAL TREATMENTS; RADIATIVE TRANSPORT EQUATIONS (RTE); SCATTERING MEDIUM; SCATTERING OPERATORS;

DIFFERENCE EQUATIONS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; LIGHT SCATTERING; REFRACTION; WAVE EQUATIONS;

SCATTERING;

EID: 42149100525     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.762508     Document Type: Conference Paper

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