Flexible Positioning of Source-Detector Arrays in 3D Visualization Platform for Monte Carlo Simulation of Light Propagation | Zendy

Jingjing Guo | Zendy; Zhiguo Gui | Zendy; Honghua Hou | Zendy; Yu Shang | Zendy

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Flexible Positioning of Source-Detector Arrays in 3D Visualization Platform for Monte Carlo Simulation of Light Propagation

Author(s) -

Jingjing Guo,

Zhiguo Gui,

Honghua Hou,

Yu Shang

Publication year - 2017

Publication title -

ieee access

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.587

H-Index - 127

ISSN - 2169-3536

DOI - 10.1109/access.2017.2769712

Subject(s) - aerospace , bioengineering , communication, networking and broadcast technologies , components, circuits, devices and systems , computing and processing , engineered materials, dielectrics and plasmas , engineering profession , fields, waves and electromagnetics , general topics for engineers , geoscience , nuclear engineering , photonics and electrooptics , power, energy and industry applications , robotics and control systems , signal processing and analysis , transportation

In current Monte Carlo (MC) simulations of the light propagation in biological tissues, the sources (S) or detectors (D) are mainly positioned in view of 2-D planes, leading to the rough accuracy, and low efficiency. This paper proposed a 3-D visualization platform with interactive view to determine the S-D coordinates as well as the incident direction of source light. Moreover, the proposed system permits implementation of the MC simulation in a flexible voxel spacing, beyond the original voxel of medical images. Validation studies on a realistic 3-D human head model show that the S-D pairs can be fast and accurately positioned on the tissue surface with assistance of the visualization platform, indicating its great potential for biomedical optical applications.

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