Simulating the effects of multiple scattering on images of dense sprays and particle fields
Applied Optics, Vol. 41, Issue 20, pp. 4188-4196 (2002)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/AO.41.004188
Acrobat PDF (656 KB)
Abstract
Most optical measurements in turbid media (including sprays, fogs, particulate and colloidal suspensions) assume single scattering of the detected photons. Multiple scattering introduces error, which has been quantified in very few systems. To quantify this error, we have written a flexible Monte Carlo photon transport simulation code capable of handling any three-dimensional geometry. Simulations of planar laser spray imaging with large, nonabsorbing particles show that up to 50% of the photons reaching the camera are multiply scattered. Because forward scattering dominates, the image is affected little. For particles with more absorption or with size closer to the wavelength of the light than those we have simulated, the effects are expected to be more serious.
© 2002 Optical Society of America
[Optical Society of America ]
OCIS Codes
(010.1310) Atmospheric and oceanic optics : Atmospheric scattering
(110.7050) Imaging systems : Turbid media
(120.1740) Instrumentation, measurement, and metrology : Combustion diagnostics
(170.3660) Medical optics and biotechnology : Light propagation in tissues
(290.1090) Scattering : Aerosol and cloud effects
(290.4210) Scattering : Multiple scattering
Citation
Mark C Jermy and Andrew Allen, "Simulating the effects of multiple scattering on images of dense sprays and particle fields," Appl. Opt. 41, 4188-4196 (2002)
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/ao/abstract.cfm?URI=ao-41-20-4188
You do not have subscription access to this journal. Citation lists with outbound citation links are available to subscribers only. You may subscribe either as an OSA member, or as an authorized user of your institution.
Contact your librarian or system administrator
or
Log in to access OSA Member Subscription
You do not have subscription access to this journal. Cited by links are available to subscribers only. You may subscribe either as an OSA member, or as an authorized user of your institution.
Contact your librarian or system administrator
or
Log in to access OSA Member Subscription
You do not have subscription access to this journal. Article level metrics are available to subscribers only. You may subscribe either as an OSA member, or as an authorized user of your institution.
Contact your librarian or system administrator
or
Log in to access OSA Member Subscription
Related Journal Articles 
- Relative Importance of Multiple Scattering by Air Molecules and Aerosols in Forming the Atmospheric Path Radiance in the Visible and Near-Infrared Parts of the Spectrum (AO)
- Estimate of the Incoherent-Scattering Contribution to Lidar Backscatter from Clouds (AO)
- Causes of atmospheric blur: comment on Atmospheric scattering effect on spatial resolution of imaging systems (JOSAA)
- Effects of Aerosol Scattering Phase Function Formulation on Point-Spread-Function Calculations (AO)
- Simulating colors of clear and partly cloudy skies (AO)
Related Conference Papers
- Ballistic imaging in the liquid core of a spray
- A Simple Radiative Transfer Model for Complex Cloudy Layers or Systems, with Validation in the Oxygen A-Band
- The diffusion approximation for turbid media with a spatially varying refractive index
- Transport theory for light propagation in tissues
- Complex optical assessment of hemorheologic and microcirculatory disorders by means of imaging and laser diffraction techniques
OSA is a member of 