A study on tetrahedron-based inhomogeneous Monte Carlo optical simulation

Biomedical Optics Express

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 44-57

  Shen, Haiou ^a   Wang, Ge ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL MECHANICS; GEOMETRY; PHOTONICS;

BIO PHOTONICS; COMPLEX GEOMETRIES; GOLD STANDARDS; MONTE CARLO; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; MONTE CARLO SIMULATIONS; MULTI-LAYERED; OPTICAL SIMULATION; TISSUE MODELS;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

EID: 84858691384     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21567085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/BOE.2.000044     Document Type: Article

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