Journal article
Application of the modified spherical harmonics method to some problems in biomedical optics
Abstract
It is demonstrated that a semi-analytical method, modified spherical harmonics (MSH), is a fast and rigorous solution for the radiative transport equation in an infinite medium containing an isotropic source. The optical properties of the medium can be determined using an inverse scheme based on fluence data (including phase if a modulated source is used) without the drawbacks inherent in the diffusion approximation. The MSH method can also be …
Authors
Xu H; Patterson MS
Journal
Physics in Medicine and Biology, Vol. 51, No. 12, pp. n247–n251
Publisher
IOP Publishing
Publication Date
June 21, 2006
DOI
10.1088/0031-9155/51/12/n03
ISSN
0031-9155