Title :
Self-consistent boundary condition for photon diffusion calculation
Author :
Kiguchi, M. ; Kawaguchi, H.
Author_Institution :
Adv. Res. Lab., Hitachi Ltd., Saitama, Japan
Abstract :
The photon diffusion equation has been widely used to assess near-infrared spectroscopy of biological tissues. Here, we introduce the self-consistent boundary condition for the truncated boundary into this calculation. This reduces the effect of the boundary on the results, showing that the self-consistent boundary condition is useful for calculations for analyzing optical topographic images.
Keywords :
biodiffusion; biological tissues; biomedical optical imaging; boundary-value problems; infrared spectroscopy; biological tissues; boundary condition; near-infrared spectroscopy; optical topographic images; photon diffusion calculation; Biomedical optical imaging; Boundary conditions; Finite difference methods; Humans; Image analysis; Light scattering; Optical propagation; Optical scattering; Particle scattering; Spectroscopy; boundary; condition; diffusion; photon;
Conference_Titel :
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2004. IEMBS '04. 26th Annual International Conference of the IEEE
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8439-3
DOI :
10.1109/IEMBS.2004.1403385
