Variable order spherical harmonic expansion scheme for the radiative transport equation using finite elements

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 230, Issue 19, 2011, Pages 7364-7383

  Surya Mohan, P ^a   Tarvainen, Tanja ^a,b   Schweiger, Martin ^a   Pulkkinen, Aki ^b,c   Arridge, Simon R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^c Canada   (Canada)

Author keywords

Finite element method; Radiative transport equation

Indexed keywords

HARMONIC ANALYSIS; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NUMERICAL METHODS; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY;

ANGULAR DISCRETIZATION; APPLICATION AREA; COMPUTATIONALLY EFFICIENT; HIGH-ORDER; HIGHER-ORDER; LOCAL SCATTERING; RADIATIVE TRANSPORT EQUATION; SCATTERING CO-EFFICIENT; SPHERICAL HARMONIC EXPANSIONS; VARIABLES ORDERING;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 79960845054     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: 10902716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2011.06.004     Document Type: Article

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