Monte Carlo algorithm for efficient simulation of time-resolved fluorescence in layered turbid media

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 17, 2008, Pages 13188-13202

  Liebert, A ^a   Wabnitz, H ^b   Zolek N ^a   Macdonald, R ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOCYBERNETICS AND BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING   (Poland)

^b PHYSIKALISCH TECHNISCHE BUNDESANSTALT   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENCE; PHOTONS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; TURBIDITY;

EFFICIENT SIMULATION; EMISSION WAVELENGTH; LAYERED MODEL; MONTE CARLO ALGORITHMS; REDUCED SCATTERING COEFFICIENTS; TIME-RESOLVED FLUORESCENCE; TIMES OF ARRIVALS; TURBID MEDIUM;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HUMAN; LIGHT; LUMINESCENCE; METHODOLOGY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHOTOMETRY; RADIATION SCATTERING; SPECTROFLUOROMETRY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LIGHT; LUMINESCENT MEASUREMENTS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NEPHELOMETRY AND TURBIDIMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE;

EID: 50049128153     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.013188     Document Type: Article

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