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Monte Carlo References

General transport theory

  • J. Spanier and E.M. Gelbard. Monte Carlo Principles and Neutron Transport Problems. Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA, 1969.
  • G. Bell and S. Glasstone. Nuclear Reactor Theory. Reinhold Van Nostrand, 1970.
  • M. Case and P.F. Zweifel. Linear Transport Theory. Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA, 1967.

Estimators - Discrete absorption weighting (DAW) and continuous absorption weighting (CAW) for reflectance R(rho), R(x,y)

C.K. Hayakawa, J. Spanier and V. Venugopalan. Comparative analysis of discrete and continuous absorption weighting estimators used in Monte Carlo simulations of radiative transport in turbid media. JOSA A, 31(2):301-311, February 2014.

Estimators - Temporal-frequency domain for reflectance R(t), R(ft)

M. Testorf, U. ¨Osterburg, B. Pogue, and K. Paulsen. Sampling of time- and frequency-domain signals in Monte Carlo simulations of photon migration. Applied Optics, 38(1):236–245, January 1999.

Estimators - Spatial-frequency domain for reflectance R(fx) and transmittance T(fx)

A.R. Gardner and V. Venugopalan. Accurate and efficient Monte Carlo solutions to the radiative transport equation in the spatial frequency domain. Optics Letters, 36(12):2269–2271, June 2011.

C.K. Hayakawa, K. Karrobi, V. Pera, D. Roblyer and V. Venugopalan. Optical sampling depth in the spatial frequency domain. Journal of Biomedical Optics, Special Section on Spatial Frequency Domain Imaging, 24(7), 071603, 2018.

Estimators - Perturbation and differential Monte Carlo (pMC/dMC)

C.K. Hayakawa, J. Spanier, F. Bevilacqua, A.K. Dunn, J.S. You, B.J. Tromberg, and V. Venugopalan. Perturbation Monte Carlo methods to solve inverse photon migration problems in heterogeneous tissues. Optics Letters, 26(17):1335–1337, September 2001.

I. Seo, J. You, {\bf C.K. Hayakawa} and V. Venugopalan. Perturbation and differential Monte Carlo methods for measurement of optical properties in a layered epithelial tissue model. J. of Biomed. Optics, 12(1), 014030, 2007.

J. Nguyen, C.K. Hayakawa, C.K., J.R. Mourant, V. Venugopalan and J. Spanier. Development of perturbation Monte Carlo methods for polarized light transport in a discrete particle scattering model. Biomedical Optics Express, 7(5), 2051-2066, 2016.