title: Successive order, multiple scattering of two-term Henyey-Greenstein phase functions.
abstract: An analytic solution to the problem of determining photon direction after successive scatterings in an infinite, homogeneous, isotropic medium, where each scattering event is in accordance with a two-term Henyey-Greenstein phase function, is presented and compared against Monte Carlo simulation results. The photon direction is described by a probability density function of the dot product of the initial direction and the direction after multiple scattering events, and it is found that such a probability density function can be represented as a weighted series of one-term Henyey-Greenstein phase functions.
authors.affiliation: Simon Fraser University, School of Engineering Science, Burnaby, BC, Canada. nick@pfeiffer.ca
authors.forename: Nick
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Pfeiffer
authors.forename: Glenn H
authors.initials: GH
authors.lastname: Chapman
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D003198:Computer Simulation; D008027:Light; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D012542:Scattering, Radiation