Optimized radial and angular positions in Monte Carlo modeling.

Abstract:

:In Monte Carlo simulations of light transport in tissues, a grid system is set up to score physical quantities. This study of cylindrically symmetrical problems found that the optimized radial and angular positions for the averaged physical quantities in each grid element are off-center. The error of the extrapolated physical quantities at the light-incidence point using the centered radial positions is up to 14.3%.

journal_name

Med Phys

journal_title

Medical physics

authors

Wang L,Jacques SL

doi

10.1118/1.597351

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1994-07-01 00:00:00

pages

1081-3

issue

7

eissn

0094-2405

issn

2473-4209

journal_volume

21

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