Light transport in biological tissue based on the simplified spherical harmonics equations

DOI10.1016/j.jcp.2006.07.007zbMath1122.78015OpenAlexW2123847381MaRDI QIDQ860317

Edward W. Larsen, Alexander D. Klose

Publication date: 9 January 2007

Published in: Journal of Computational Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcp.2006.07.007

zbMATH Keywords

spherical harmonicstomographyradiative transportscattering mediamolecular imagingdiffusive mediumtissue optics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis (62P10) Biological applications of optics and electromagnetic theory (78A70) Biomedical imaging and signal processing (92C55) Finite difference methods applied to problems in optics and electromagnetic theory (78M20) Waves and radiation in optics and electromagnetic theory (78A40)

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