title: Tutorial on diffuse light transport.
abstract: A tutorial introduction to diffuse light transport is presented. The basic analytic equations of time-resolved, steady-state and modulated light transport are introduced. The perturbation method for handling slight heterogeneities in optical properties is outlined. The treatment of boundary conditions such as an air/tissue surface is described. Finite mesh-based numerical methods are introduced to calculate the diffuse light field in complex tissues with arbitrary boundaries. Applications in tissue spectroscopy and imaging illustrate these theoretical and computational tools.
authors.affiliation: Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon 97239, USA. jacquess@ohsu.edu
authors.forename: Steven L
authors.initials: SL
authors.lastname: Jacques
authors.forename: Brian W
authors.initials: BW
authors.lastname: Pogue
mesh_terms: D003198:Computer Simulation; D007090:Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted / Q000379:methods*; D008027:Light; D008954:Models, Biological; D009391:Nephelometry and Turbidimetry / Q000379:methods*; D012542:Scattering, Radiation; D041623:Tomography, Optical Coherence / Q000379:methods*