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 …

Advances in Monte Carlo simulation for light propagation in tissue

V Periyasamy, M Pramanik - IEEE reviews in biomedical …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Monte Carlo (MC) simulation for light propagation in tissue is the gold standard for studying
the light propagation in biological tissue and has been used for years. Interaction of photons …

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 …

MCmatlab: an open-source, user-friendly, MATLAB-integrated three-dimensional Monte Carlo light transport solver with heat diffusion and tissue damage

D Marti, RN Aasbjerg, PE Andersen… - Journal of biomedical …, 2018 - spiedigitallibrary.org
While there exist many Monte Carlo (MC) programs for solving the radiative transfer
equation (RTE) in biological tissues, we have identified a need for an open-source MC …

Monte Carlo modeling of light transport in tissue (steady state and time of flight)

SL Jacques - Optical-thermal response of laser-irradiated tissue, 2010 - Springer
Monte Carlo simulations are a fundamental and versatile approach toward modeling light
transport in tissues. While diffusion theory for light transport is a fast and convenient way to …

Accelerated Monte Carlo models to simulate fluorescence spectra from layered tissues

J Swartling, A Pifferi, AMK Enejder… - JOSA A, 2003 - opg.optica.org
Two efficient Monte Carlo models are described, facilitating predictions of complete time-
resolved fluorescence spectra from a light-scattering and light-absorbing medium. These are …

Graphics processing unit-accelerated mesh-based Monte Carlo photon transport simulations

Q Fang, S Yan - Journal of Biomedical Optics, 2019 - spiedigitallibrary.org
The mesh-based Monte Carlo (MMC) algorithm is increasingly used as the gold-standard for
developing new biophotonics modeling techniques in 3-D complex tissues, including both …

White Monte Carlo for time-resolved photon migration

E Alerstam, S Andersson-Engels… - Journal of biomedical …, 2008 - spiedigitallibrary.org
A novel scheme for fully scalable White Monte Carlo (WMC) has been developed and is
used as a forward solver in the evaluation of experimental time-resolved spectroscopy …

Monte Carlo modeling of light transport in tissues

SL Jacques, L Wang - Optical-thermal response of laser-irradiated tissue, 1995 - Springer
Monte Carlo simulations of photon propagation offer a flexible yet rigorous approach toward
photon transport in turbid tissues. This method simulates the “random walk” of photons in a …

GPU-based Monte Carlo simulation for light propagation in complex heterogeneous tissues

N Ren, J Liang, X Qu, J Li, B Lu, J Tian - Optics express, 2010 - opg.optica.org
As the most accurate model for simulating light propagation in heterogeneous tissues,
Monte Carlo (MC) method has been widely used in the field of optical molecular imaging …