Monte Carlo simulation of photon migration in 3D turbid media accelerated by graphics processing units

Q Fang, DA Boas - Optics express, 2009 - opg.optica.org
We report a parallel Monte Carlo algorithm accelerated by graphics processing units (GPU)
for modeling time-resolved photon migration in arbitrary 3D turbid media. By taking …

Mesh-based Monte Carlo method using fast ray-tracing in Plücker coordinates

Q Fang - Biomedical optics express, 2010 - opg.optica.org
We describe a fast mesh-based Monte Carlo (MC) photon migration algorithm for static and
time-resolved imaging in 3D complex media. Compared with previous works using voxel …

Parallel computing with graphics processing units for high-speed Monte Carlo simulation of photon migration

E Alerstam, T Svensson… - Journal of biomedical …, 2008 - spiedigitallibrary.org
General-purpose computing on graphics processing units (GPGPU) is shown to dramatically
increase the speed of Monte Carlo simulations of photon migration. In a standard simulation …

Bulk optical properties of healthy female breast tissue

T Durduran, R Choe, JP Culver, L Zubkov… - Physics in Medicine …, 2002 - iopscience.iop.org
We have measured the bulk optical properties of healthy female breast tissues in vivo in the
parallel plate, transmission geometry. Fifty-two volunteers were measured. Blood volume …

Spatially offset Raman spectroscopy—how deep?

S Mosca, P Dey, M Salimi, B Gardner… - Analytical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Spatially offset Raman spectroscopy (SORS) is a technique for interrogating the subsurface
composition of turbid samples noninvasively. This study generically addresses a …

Diffuse optical imaging and spectroscopy of the breast: a brief outline of history and perspectives

P Taroni - Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences, 2012 - Springer
Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women in industrialized countries. At
present, X-ray mammography is the gold standard for breast imaging, but has limitations …

Biomedical applications of integrating sphere: a review

A ul Rehman, I Ahmad, SA Qureshi - Photodiagnosis and photodynamic …, 2020 - Elsevier
Integrating sphere remains a valuable tool for biomedical optics research. Specifically, it has
been used to determine the optical properties (ie, absorption coefficient, scattering …

There's plenty of light at the bottom: statistics of photon penetration depth in random media

F Martelli, T Binzoni, A Pifferi, L Spinelli, A Farina… - Scientific Reports, 2016 - nature.com
We propose a comprehensive statistical approach describing the penetration depth of light
in random media. The presented theory exploits the concept of probability density function f …

Phase dual‐slopes in frequency‐domain near‐infrared spectroscopy for enhanced sensitivity to brain tissue: First applications to human subjects

G Blaney, A Sassaroli, T Pham… - Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
We present a first in vivo application of phase dual‐slopes (DSϕ), measured with frequency‐
domain near‐infrared spectroscopy on four healthy human subjects, to demonstrate their …

Verification method of Monte Carlo codes for transport processes with arbitrary accuracy

F Martelli, F Tommasi, A Sassaroli, L Fini, S Cavalieri - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
In this work, we present a robust and powerful method for the verification, with arbitrary
accuracy, of Monte Carlo codes for simulating random walks in complex media. Such …