Hybrid diffusion and two-flux approximation for multilayered tissue light propagation modeling

D Yudovsky, AJ Durkin - Applied optics, 2011 - opg.optica.org
… The diffusion approximation is a greatly simplified model and produces analytical solutions
… absorbance in tissue. However, the diffusion approximation breaks down if tissue is strongly …

Validity of the diffusion approximation in bio-optical imaging

B Chen, K Stamnes, JJ Stamnes - Applied Optics, 2001 - opg.optica.org
… the diffusion approximation with those of a state-of-the-art radiative transfer model, based on
rigorous radiative transfer theory for the coupled air–tissue … Thus, for studies of tissue optical

Diffuse optics: fundamentals and tissue applications

RC Mesquita, AG Yodh - Nano Optics and Atomics: Transport of …, 2011 - ebooks.iospress.nl
… We aim to facilitate understanding of the light diffusion problem in tissues, with minimal use
… the microscopic tissue scattering parameter that survives the diffusion approximations to the …

Tissue optics for a slab geometry in the diffusion approximation

MJC Van Gemert, AJ Welch, WM Star… - Lasers in medical …, 1987 - Springer
… This paper solves the radiative transport equation in a slab using the diffusion approximation
in one-dimension. The absorption and scattering coefficients as well as the first moment of …

Light transport in tissue

AE Profio - Applied optics, 1989 - opg.optica.org
… light in tissue may be calculated by exact transport theory, or the approximate diffusion theory,
provided the optical properties are known at the source wavelength. Optical properties for …

Finite-element-based higher order diffusion approximation of light propagation in tissues

H Jiang, KD Paulsen - Optical Tomography, Photon Migration …, 1995 - spiedigitallibrary.org
… of light propagation in two-dimensional tissue geometries using a finite element method …
diffusion approximation can provide more accurate solutions than the usual first-order diffusion

A diffusion approximation model of light transport in multilayered skin tissue

M Makropoulou, E Kaselouris, E Drakaki… - … on Biomedical Optics, 2007 - opg.optica.org
diffusion approximation modeling for measuring the light intensity distribution in the skin
samples with cw visible laser beam (λ=632.8 nm). The diffusion … of animal skin tissue. We have …

Comparison of simplified Monte Carlo simulation and diffusion approximation for the fluorescence signal from phantoms with typical mouse tissue optical properties

G Ma, JF Delorme, P Gallant, DA Boas - Applied optics, 2007 - opg.optica.org
… the diffusion approximation with MC simulation, we found that the diffusion approximation
is not a significant issue when it is used to interpret the fluorescence signal from mouse tissue. …

Optical properties of tissue

J Mobley, T Vo-Dinh, VV Tuchin - Biomedical photonics …, 2003 - api.taylorfrancis.com
… is concept of diffuse light is central in tissue optics. Diffusion describes a process in which …
to a good approximation using ray optics (aka geometric optics) although diffraction is also a …

Photon migration through a turbid slab described by a model based on diffusion approximation. I. Theory

D Contini, F Martelli, G Zaccanti - Applied optics, 1997 - opg.optica.org
… describe photon migration in highly diffusing media and is an important matter in biological
tissue optics. An analysis of the time-dependent diffusion equation together with its solutions …