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Thermal radiative transfer (TRT) presents significant computational challenges due to the stiff, nonlinear coupling between radiation and material energy, particularly in multigroup, high-fidelity transport models. In this work, we develop…

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Image reconstruction by Algebraic Methods (AM) outperforms the transform methods in situations where the data collection procedure is constrained by time, space, and radiation dose. AM algorithms can also be applied for the cases where…

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Context. 3D numerical simulations of radiative transfer are crucial for understanding complex astrophysical objects. For Monte Carlo radiative transfer, the spatial grid design is critical yet complex. Common grids include hierarchical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-07-30 Arno Lauwers , Maarten Baes , Peter Camps , Bert Vander Meulen

We propose the redistribution-reconfiguration (red-rec) algorithm to prepare large configurations of atoms using arrays of dynamic optical traps. Red-rec exploits simple heuristics and exact subroutines to solve atom reconfiguration…

We combine a Monte Carlo radiative transfer code with an SPH code, so that -- assuming thermal equilibrium -- we can calculate dust-temperature fields, spectral energy distributions, and isophotal maps, for the individual time-frames…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Dimitris Stamatellos , Anthony Whitworth

Radiative transfer modelling is part of many astrophysical simulations and is used to make synthetic observations and to assist analysis of observations. We concentrate on the modelling of the radio lines emitted by the interstellar medium.…

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Radiative transfer is a key component in almost all astrophysical and cosmological simulations. We present Magritte: a modern open-source software library for 3D radiative transfer. It uses a deterministic ray-tracer and formal solver, i.e.…

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Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is a powerful and noninvasive method for retinal imaging. In this paper, we introduce a fast segmentation method based on a new variant of spectral graph theory named diffusion maps. The research is…

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We present TREVR2 (Tree-based REVerse Ray Tracing 2), a fast, general algorithm for computing the radiation field, suitable for both particle and mesh codes. It is designed to self-consistently evolve chemistry for zoomed-in astrophysical…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-18 James W. Wadsley , Bernhard Baumschlager , Sijing Shen

Modern deep learning methods typically treat image sequences as large tensors of sequentially stacked frames. However, is this straightforward representation ideal given the current state-of-the-art (SoTA)? In this work, we address this…

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This work presents efficient solution techniques for radiative transfer in the smoothed particle hydrodynamics discretization. Two choices that impact efficiency are how the material and radiation energy are coupled, which determines the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-03-17 Brody R. Bassett , J. Michael Owen , Thomas A. Brunner

We present a numerical implementation of radiative transfer based on an explicitly photon-conserving advection scheme, where radiative fluxes over the cell interfaces of a structured or unstructured mesh are calculated with a second-order…

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This dissertation relates to the transition of the state of the art of swept source optical coherence tomography (SS-OCT) systems to a new realm in which the image acquisition speed is improved by an order of magnitude. With the aid of a…

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The radiative transfer equation (RTE) is a fundamental mathematical model to describe physical phenomena involving the propagation of radiation and its interactions with the host medium. Deterministic methods can produce accurate solutions…

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In healthcare, accurately classifying medical images is vital, but conventional methods often hinge on medical data with a consistent grid structure, which may restrict their overall performance. Recent medical research has been focused on…

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Optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA) is a new imaging modality to visualize retinal microvasculature and has been readily adopted in clinics. High-resolution OCT angiograms are important to qualitatively and quantitatively…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-11 Yuyan Ruan , Dawei Yang , Ziqi Tang , An Ran Ran , Carol Y. Cheung , Hao Chen

Models of active galactic nuclei (AGN) suggest that their circumnuclear media are complex with clumps and filaments, while recent observations hint towards polar extended structures of gas and dust, as opposed to the classical torus…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-06-21 Bert Vander Meulen , Peter Camps , Marko Stalevski , Maarten Baes

A new iterative method for non-LTE multilevel polarized radiative transfer in hydrogen lines is presented. Iterative methods (such as the Jacobi method) tend to damp out high-frequency components of the error fast, but converges poorly due…

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We propose PROPAGATE, a fast approximation framework to estimate distance-based metrics on very large graphs such as the (effective) diameter, the (effective) radius, or the average distance within a small error. The framework assigns seeds…

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