Forced detection Monte Carlo algorithms for accelerated blood vessel image simulations

Journal of Biophotonics

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 178-184

  Fredriksson, Ingemar ^a   Larsson, Marcus ^a   Strömberg, Tomas ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Diffuse scattering; Image simulation; Monte carlo simulations; Variance reduction

Indexed keywords

BRUTE FORCE; DIFFUSE SCATTERING; EMBEDDED OBJECT; FORCED DETECTION; FRACTIONAL WEIGHT; IMAGE SIMULATION; IMAGE SIMULATIONS; MONTE CARLO ALGORITHMS; MONTE CARLO SIMULATIONS; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; SCATTERING EVENTS; TISSUE MODELS; VARIANCE REDUCTION; VARIANCE REDUCTIONS;

ALGORITHMS; BLOOD; BLOOD VESSELS; DETECTORS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; MILITARY PHOTOGRAPHY; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OBJECT RECOGNITION; PHOTONS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SCATTERING;

SIMULATORS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; BLOOD VESSEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HISTOLOGY; IMAGE PROCESSING; LIGHT RELATED PHENOMENA; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHOTON; RADIATION SCATTERING;

ALGORITHMS; BLOOD VESSELS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, ANATOMIC; MONTE CARLO METHOD; OPTICAL PROCESSES; PHOTONS; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 65449161312     PISSN: 1864063X     EISSN: 18640648     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jbio.200810048     Document Type: Article

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