Review of Monte Carlo modeling of light transport in tissues

C Zhu, Q Liu - Journal of biomedical optics, 2013 - spiedigitallibrary.org
A general survey is provided on the capability of Monte Carlo (MC) modeling in tissue optics
while paying special attention to the recent progress in the development of methods for …

[PDF][PDF] Exhaustive review of acceleration strategies for Monte Carlo simulations in photon transit

L Xu, Z Zhu, T Li - Journal of Innovative Optical Health Sciences, 2024 - researching.cn
Monte Carlo simulation techniques have become the quintessence and a pivotal nexus of
inquiry in the realm of simulating photon movement within biological fabrics. Through the …

ValoMC: a Monte Carlo software and MATLAB toolbox for simulating light transport in biological tissue

AA Leino, A Pulkkinen, T Tarvainen - Osa Continuum, 2019 - opg.optica.org
A Monte Carlo method for photon transport has gained wide popularity in biomedical optics
for studying light behaviour in tissue. Nowadays, typical computation times range from a few …

Three-dimensional reconstruction of blood vessels from in vivo color Doppler optical coherence tomography images

J Kehlet Barton, JA Izatt, MD Kulkarni, S Yazdanfar… - Dermatology, 1999 - karger.com
Purpose: Current laser treatment for vascular disorders such as port wine stains can have
incomplete or unacceptable results. A customized treatment strategy based on knowledge of …

Photothermal coagulation of blood vessels: a comparison of high-speed optical coherence tomography and numerical modelling

JK Barton, A Rollins, S Yazdanfar… - Physics in Medicine …, 2001 - iopscience.iop.org
Optical-thermal models that can accurately predict temperature rise and damage in blood
vessels and surrounding tissue may be used to improve the treatment of vascular disorders …

A tetrahedron-based inhomogeneous Monte Carlo optical simulator

H Shen, G Wang - Physics in medicine & biology, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
Optical imaging has been widely applied in preclinical and clinical applications. Fifteen
years ago, an efficient Monte Carlo program'MCML'was developed for use with multi-layered …

Tonometric multi-wavelength photoplethysmography for studying the cutaneous microvasculature of the fingertip

JP Sirkiä, T Panula, M Kaisti - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Microcirculation is a key compartment in the human cardiovascular system due to its vital
roles in providing oxygen and nutrients to tissue, removing metabolic byproducts and …

Monte Carlo simulation of light transport in turbid medium with embedded object—spherical, cylindrical, ellipsoidal, or cuboidal objects embedded within multilayered …

V Periyasamy, M Pramanik - Journal of biomedical optics, 2014 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Monte Carlo modeling of light transport in multilayered tissue (MCML) is modified to
incorporate objects of various shapes (sphere, ellipsoid, cylinder, or cuboid) with a refractive …

A comparison between transport and diffusion calculations using a finite element‐spherical harmonics radiation transport method

ED Aydin, CRE De Oliveira, AJH Goddard - Medical physics, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
Most researchers choose the diffusion approximation to the transport equation as the model
to describe photon migration in biological tissues. However, the applicability of this …

Evaluation of fluence correction algorithms in multispectral photoacoustic imaging

X Zhou, N Akhlaghi, KA Wear, BS Garra, TJ Pfefer… - Photoacoustics, 2020 - Elsevier
Multispectral photoacoustic imaging (MPAI) is a promising emerging diagnostic technology,
but fluence artifacts can degrade device performance. Our goal was to develop well …