Diffuse light propagation in biological media by a time-domain parabolic simplified spherical harmonics approximation with ray-divergence effects

Applied Optics

Volumn 49, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1414-1429

  Domínguez, Jorge Bouza ^a   Bérubé Lauzière, Yves ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; LIGHT PROPAGATION; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS;

ABSORPTION CO-EFFICIENT; BIOLOGICAL TISSUES; COUPLED PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; DIFFUSION EQUATIONS; FINITE-ELEMENT APPROACH; MONTE CARLO RESULTS; RADIATIVE TRANSFER EQUATIONS; SPHERICAL HARMONICS;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DIFFUSION; INFRARED RADIATION; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; PHOTOMETRY; RADIATION SCATTERING; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ALGORITHMS; DIFFUSION; INFRARED RAYS; LIGHT; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEPHELOMETRY AND TURBIDIMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECTROSCOPY, NEAR-INFRARED;

EID: 77949852467     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.49.001414     Document Type: Article

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