A universal numerical treatment of radiative transport equations with differential and integral scattering operators

Kevin G. Phillips; Carlo Lancellotti

doi:10.1117/12.762508

11 March 2008 A universal numerical treatment of radiative transport equations with differential and integral scattering operators

Kevin G. Phillips, Carlo Lancellotti

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Proceedings Volume 6864, Biomedical Applications of Light Scattering II; 68640Z (2008) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.762508
Event: SPIE BiOS, 2008, San Jose, California, United States

Abstract

An investigation of the normal incidence of an infinite plane wave on a slab of uniformly scattering media is undertaken using the P_N-method. We demonstrate the computational competitiveness of the P_N-method, not only in its ability to provide timely solutions even for strongly anisotropic scattering (g > 0.9), but also in its ability to simultaneously treat various theories of scattering such as the Henyey- Greenstein model, the Fokker-Planck forward scattering approximation using the Laplace-Beltrami operator, and the Leakeas-Larsen rational approximation. We also discuss the extendibility of the method to the study of backscatter and transmission due to normally incident collimated pencil beam illumination.

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Kevin G. Phillips and Carlo Lancellotti "A universal numerical treatment of radiative transport equations with differential and integral scattering operators", Proc. SPIE 6864, Biomedical Applications of Light Scattering II, 68640Z (11 March 2008); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.762508

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