Analysis of single Monte Carlo methods for prediction of reflectance from turbid media

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 20, 2011, Pages 19627-19642

  Martinelli, Michele ^a   Gardner, Adam ^b,c   Cuccia, David ^d   Hayakawa, Carole ^b,c   Spanier, Jerome ^c   Venugopalan, Vasan ^b,c  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^b University of California at Irvine   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d Modulated Imaging Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERPOLATION; INVERSE PROBLEMS; PHOTONS; REFLECTION; SPLINES; TURBIDITY;

LINEAR INTERPOLATION; MAGNITUDE REDUCTION; MONTE CARLO; MONTE CARLO SIMULATIONS; NON-UNIFORM RATIONAL B-SPLINES; PROCESSING SIMULATION; RADIATIVE TRANSPORT EQUATION; RELATIVE ERRORS; RESCALING; SCALING RELATIONSHIPS; SCATTERING AND ABSORPTION; SEMI-INFINITE MEDIA; TURBID MEDIA;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FOURIER ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHOTOMETRY; PHOTON; RADIATION SCATTERING; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FOURIER ANALYSIS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NEPHELOMETRY AND TURBIDIMETRY; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PHOTONS; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 80053248968     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.019627     Document Type: Article

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