Development of Monte Carlo technique for determination of skin oxygenation by near-infrared spectroscopy

Igor Victorovich Meglinski; Stephen John Matcher

doi:10.1117/12.347498

30 April 1999 Development of Monte Carlo technique for determination of skin oxygenation by near-infrared spectroscopy

Igor Victorovich Meglinski, Stephen John Matcher

Proceedings Volume 3598, Coherence Domain Optical Methods in Biomedical Science and Clinical Applications III; (1999) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.347498
Event: BiOS '99 International Biomedical Optics Symposium, 1999, San Jose, CA, United States

Abstract

The present paper is concerned with the simulation, by random sampling, of the multiple scattering of photons for the purpose of solving near-IR radiation in complex multi- layer highly scattering media, which represent the structure of human skin in a simplistic manner. Direct weight Monte Carlo algorithm is imitating transport of photons between source detector areas by letting the photons carry out a random walk, each step of which is taken into account that provides information about time of photon presence in each layer of a medium. The last one makes it possible to estimate the depth sensitivity and the degree of spatial localization offered by fiber-optics probes of various geometries. Discussion of these limitations and potential possibilities of our simulation of skin model is given as well as a new suggestion for simulation of complex multi- layer tissues.

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Igor Victorovich Meglinski and Stephen John Matcher "Development of Monte Carlo technique for determination of skin oxygenation by near-infrared spectroscopy", Proc. SPIE 3598, Coherence Domain Optical Methods in Biomedical Science and Clinical Applications III, (30 April 1999); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.347498

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