title: A study on tetrahedron-based inhomogeneous Monte Carlo optical simulation.
abstract: Monte Carlo (MC) simulation is widely recognized as a gold standard in biophotonics for its high accuracy. Here we analyze several issues associated with tetrahedron-based optical Monte Carlo simulation in the context of TIM-OS, MMCM, MCML, and CUDAMCML in terms of accuracy and efficiency. Our results show that TIM-OS has significant better performance in the complex geometry cases and has comparable performance with CUDAMCML in the multi-layered tissue model.
authors.affiliation: School of Biomedical Engineering and Sciences, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA.
authors.forename: Haiou
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Shen
authors.forename: Ge
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Wang