Title :
Monte Carlo model of laser Doppler perfusion imaging in skin cancer detection
Author :
Alireza Mowla;Thomas Taimre;Yah Leng Lim;Aleksandar D. Rakic
Author_Institution :
The University of Queensland, School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, St. Lucia, Brisbane, 4072, Australia
Abstract :
We present a laser Doppler perfusion imaging model to map the perfusion in melanoma and non-melanoma skin cancers. We numerically investigate the use of neovascularization as an early detection method using Monte Carlo method to simulate the interactions of photons and skin tissue.
Keywords :
"Skin","Skin cancer","Doppler effect","Photonics","Monte Carlo methods","Imaging"
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics Pacific Rim (CLEO-PR), 2015 11th Conference on
DOI :
10.1109/CLEOPR.2015.7376039
