InhaltsangabePreface. 1. INTRODUCTION. 2. RAYLEIGH THEORY AND MIE THEORY FOR A SINGLE SCATTERER. 3. MONTE CARLO MODELING OF PHOTON TRANSPORT IN BIOLOGICAL TISSUE. 4. CONVOLUTION FOR BROADBEAM RESPONSES. 5. RADIATIVE TRANSFER EQUATION AND DIFFUSION THEORY. 6. HYBRID MODEL OF MONTE CARLO METHOD AND DIFFUSION THEORY. 7. SENSING OF OPTICAL PROPERTIES AND SPECTROSCOPY. 8. BALLISTIC IMAGING AND MICROSCOPY. 9. OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY. 10. MUELLER OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY. 11. DIFFUSE OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY. 12. PHOTOACOUSTIC TOMOGRAPHY. 13. ULTRASOUND-MODULATED OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY. Problems. Reading. Furhter Reading. APPENDIX A. DEFINITIONS OF OPTICAL PROPERTIES. APPENDIX B. List of Acronyms. Index.

Lihong V. Wang, PhD, is Gene K. Beare Distinguished Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering and Director of the Optical Imaging Laboratory at Washington University in St. Louis. Dr. Wang is Chair of the International Biomedical Optics Society. His?Monte Carlo model of photon transport in biological tissues has been used worldwide. He has published more than 120 peer-reviewed journal articles and patents. HSINI WU, PhD, is Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Texas A&M University. He has published more than fifty peerreviewed journal articles. Dr. Wu was a senior Fulbright scholar and is listed in Outstanding Educators of America. He serves on the Editorial Advisory Board of Biocomplexity and the Editorial Board of BioMedical Engineering OnLine.

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