Hybrid method for fast Monte Carlo simulation of diffuse reflectance from a multilayered tissue model with tumor-like heterogeneities

Caigang Zhu; Quan Liu

doi:10.1117/1.JBO.17.1.010501

1 February 2012 Hybrid method for fast Monte Carlo simulation of diffuse reflectance from a multilayered tissue model with tumor-like heterogeneities

Caigang Zhu, Quan Liu

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Journal of Biomedical Optics, Vol. 17, Issue 1, 010501 (February 2012). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JBO.17.1.010501

Abstract

We present a hybrid method that combines a multilayered scaling method and a perturbation method to speed up the Monte Carlo simulation of diffuse reflectance from a multilayered tissue model with finite-size tumor-like heterogeneities. The proposed method consists of two steps. In the first step, a set of photon trajectory information generated from a baseline Monte Carlo simulation is utilized to scale the exit weight and exit distance of survival photons for the multilayered tissue model. In the second step, another set of photon trajectory information, including the locations of all collision events from the baseline simulation and the scaling result obtained from the first step, is employed by the perturbation Monte Carlo method to estimate diffuse reflectance from the multilayered tissue model with tumor-like heterogeneities. Our method is demonstrated to shorten simulation time by several orders of magnitude. Moreover, this hybrid method works for a larger range of probe configurations and tumor models than the scaling method or the perturbation method alone.

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Caigang Zhu and Quan Liu "Hybrid method for fast Monte Carlo simulation of diffuse reflectance from a multilayered tissue model with tumor-like heterogeneities," Journal of Biomedical Optics 17(1), 010501 (1 February 2012). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JBO.17.1.010501

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