Abstract
A tutorial introduction to diffuse light transport is presented. The basic analytic equations of time-resolved, steady-state and modulated light transport are introduced. The perturbation method for handling slight heterogeneities in optical properties is outlined. The treatment of boundary conditions such as an air/tissue surface is described. Finite mesh-based numerical methods are introduced to calculate the diffuse light field in complex tissues with arbitrary boundaries. Applications in tissue spectroscopy and imaging illustrate these theoretical and computational tools.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Article number | 041302 |
| Journal | Journal of biomedical optics |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 2008 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- diffuse
- imaging
- light transport
- optical properties
- spectroscopy
- tissue
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
- Biomaterials
- Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
- Biomedical Engineering