title: Anisotropic effects in highly scattering media.
abstract: In this paper, we study anisotropic scattering and light propagation models applicable to diffuse optical tomography. We propose a model for anisotropic scattering in the radiative transfer framework and derive the corresponding anisotropic diffusion model. To verify the anisotropic diffusion model, we consider the case of a simple anisotropic scattering model also presentable within the diffusion approximation. For numerical computations, we present a three-dimensional (3D) anisotropic Monte Carlo model and 2D finite element and boundary element solutions of the anisotropic diffusion model, and compare the results of the simulations.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Biomedical Engineering, Helsinki University of Technology, P. O. Box 2200, 02015 HUT, Finland. Jenni.Heino@hut.fi
authors.forename: Jenni
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Heino
authors.forename: Simon
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Arridge
authors.forename: Jan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Sikora
authors.forename: Erkki
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Somersalo