Evaluation of path-history-based fluorescence Monte Carlo method for photon migration in heterogeneous media

Xu Jiang, Yong Deng, Zhaoyang Luo, Kan Wang, Lichao Lian, Xiaoquan Yang, Igor Meglinski, Qingming Luo

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Abstract

The path-history-based fluorescence Monte Carlo method used for fluorescence tomography imaging reconstruction has attracted increasing attention. In this paper, we first validate the standard fluorescence Monte Carlo (sfMC) method by experimenting with a cylindrical phantom. Then, we describe a path-history-based decoupled fluorescence Monte Carlo (dfMC) method, analyze different perturbation fluorescence Monte Carlo (pfMC) methods, and compare the calculation accuracy and computational efficiency of the dfMC and pfMC methods using the sfMC method as a reference. The results show that the dfMC method is more accurate and efficient than the pfMC method in heterogeneous medium.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)31948-31965
Number of pages18
JournalOptics Express
Volume22
Issue number26
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 17 Dec 2014

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