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Optics Express

  • Editor: C. Martijn de Sterke
  • Vol. 19, Iss. 20 — Sep. 26, 2011
  • pp: 19627–19642

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

Michele Martinelli, Adam Gardner, David Cuccia, Carole Hayakawa, Jerome Spanier, and Vasan Venugopalan  »View Author Affiliations


Optics Express, Vol. 19, Issue 20, pp. 19627-19642 (2011)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OE.19.019627


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Abstract

Starting from the radiative transport equation we derive the scaling relationships that enable a single Monte Carlo (MC) simulation to predict the spatially- and temporally-resolved reflectance from homogeneous semi-infinite media with arbitrary scattering and absorption coefficients. This derivation shows that a rigorous application of this single Monte Carlo (sMC) approach requires the rescaling to be done individually for each photon biography. We examine the accuracy of the sMC method when processing simulations on an individual photon basis and also demonstrate the use of adaptive binning and interpolation using non-uniform rational B-splines (NURBS) to achieve order of magnitude reductions in the relative error as compared to the use of uniform binning and linear interpolation. This improved implementation for sMC simulation serves as a fast and accurate solver to address both forward and inverse problems and is available for use at http://www.virtualphotonics.org/.

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OCIS Codes
(170.3660) Medical optics and biotechnology : Light propagation in tissues
(170.5280) Medical optics and biotechnology : Photon migration
(170.7050) Medical optics and biotechnology : Turbid media

ToC Category:
Medical Optics and Biotechnology

History
Original Manuscript: August 4, 2011
Revised Manuscript: August 23, 2011
Manuscript Accepted: August 25, 2011
Published: September 22, 2011

Virtual Issues
Vol. 6, Iss. 10 Virtual Journal for Biomedical Optics

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Michele Martinelli, Adam Gardner, David Cuccia, Carole Hayakawa, Jerome Spanier, and Vasan Venugopalan, "Analysis of single Monte Carlo methods for prediction of reflectance from turbid media," Opt. Express 19, 19627-19642 (2011)
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/oe/abstract.cfm?URI=oe-19-20-19627


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