Title :
Designing optical waveguides for clinical diagnostics in layered tissues: Monte Carlo simulations
Author :
Vishwanath, Karthik ; Valenzuela, John R. ; Mycek, Mary-Ann
Author_Institution :
Appl. Phys. Program, Michigan Univ., Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Abstract :
Time-resolved fluorescence signals remitted from bi-layered turbid media models of epithelial tissues were simulated using a Monte Carlo model for photon migration. These simulations are useful for designing fiber-optic probes for clinical optical diagnostics.
Keywords :
Monte Carlo methods; biological tissues; fluorescence; optical design techniques; optical waveguides; patient diagnosis; time resolved spectra; Monte Carlo simulations; bilayered turbid media; clinical optical diagnostics; epithelial tissues; fiber-optic probes; layered tissues; optical waveguides; photon migration; time-resolved fluorescence signals; Absorption; Biological system modeling; Biological tissues; Biomedical optical imaging; Detectors; Fluorescence; Geometry; Optical scattering; Optical waveguides; Solid modeling;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2004. LEOS 2004. The 17th Annual Meeting of the IEEE
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8557-8
DOI :
10.1109/LEOS.2004.1363495
