Determination of the optical properties of turbid media from a single Monte Carlo simulation
- 1 October 1996
- journal article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Physics in Medicine & Biology
- Vol. 41 (10) , 2221-2227
- https://doi.org/10.1088/0031-9155/41/10/026
Abstract
We describe a fast, accurate method for determination of the optical coefficients of 'semi-infinite' and 'infinite' turbid media. For the particular case of time-resolved reflectance from a biological medium, we show that a single Monte Carlo simulation can be used to fit the data and to derive the absorption and reduced scattering coefficients. Tests with independent Monte Carlo simulations showed that the errors in the deduced absorption and reduced scattering coefficients are smaller than 1% and 2%, respectively.Keywords
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