Hybrid heuristic time dependent solution of the radiative transfer equation for the slab

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 7369, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Martelli, Fabrizio ^a   Del Bianco, Samuele ^a,b   Pifferi, Antonio ^c,d,e   Spinelli, Lorenzo ^d   Torricelli, Alessandro ^c   Zaccanti, Giovanni ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b IFAC CNR   (Italy)

^c POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^d IFN CNR   (Italy)

^e CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL SOLUTIONS; DIFFUSION EQUATIONS; HYBRID HEURISTICS; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; PHOTON MIGRATION; RADIATIVE TRANSFER EQUATIONS; SHORT DISTANCES; SLAB GEOMETRY; STRONG APPROXIMATION; TIME DEPENDENT; TIME-DEPENDENT SOLUTIONS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEAT RADIATION; HEURISTIC METHODS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OPTICAL IMAGE STORAGE;

RADIATIVE TRANSFER;

EID: 70350000418     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.831689     Document Type: Conference Paper

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