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Quantitative depth estimation of tumor invasion in early gastric cancer by scattering of circularly polarized light is computationally investigated using the Monte Carlo method. Using the optical parameters of the human stomach wall and its…

Medical Physics · Physics 2022-03-31 Nozomi Nishizawa , Takahiro Kuchimaru

The circular polarization of light scattered by biological tissues provides valuable information and has been considered as a powerful tool for the diagnosis of tumor tissue. We propose a non-staining, non-invasive and in-vivo cancer…

Depolarization of circularly polarized light due to multiple scattering in turbid media provides size distributions of scatterer. Applied it to the biological tissues as turbid media, scatters correspond to cell nuclei, which is abnormally…

In this work we present a novel 3D Monte Carlo photon transport program for simulation of multiple refractive scattering based on the refractive properties of X-rays in highly scattering media, like lung tissue. Multiple scattering reduces…

Medical Physics · Physics 2010-02-03 A. N. Khromova , L. Rigon , F. Arfelli , R. H. Menk , H. J. Besch , H. Plothow-Besch

We present Monte Carlo simulations of dusty spiral galaxies, modelled as bulge + disk systems, aimed to study their extinction and polarization properties. The extinction parameters (absorption and scattering) of dust grains are calculated…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Simone Bianchi , Andrea Ferrara , Carlo Giovanardi

Significance: The depolarization of circularly polarized light caused by scattering in turbid media reveals structural information about the dispersed particles, such as their size, density, and distribution, which is useful for…

Medical Physics · Physics 2024-06-05 Nozomi Nishizawa , Asato Esumi , Yukito Ganko

Depolarization of circularly polarized light scattered from biological tissues depends on structural changes in cell nuclei, which can provide valuable information for differentiating cancer tissues concealed in healthy tissues. In this…

Medical Physics · Physics 2020-12-08 Nozomi Nishizawa , Bassam Al-Qadi , Takahiro Kuchimaru

Quasi-monochromatic, high energy and highly polarized $\gamma$-ray beam sources based on Compton scattering of laser photons (LCS) on relativistic electrons have developed for the last few decades as established instruments for nuclear…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-11-11 Dan Filipescu

Purpose: The terahertz (THz) medical imaging is a promising noninvasive technique for monitoring the skin's conditions, early detection of the human skin cancer, and recovery from burns and wounds. It can be applied for visualization of…

With increasing patient and staff X-ray radiation awareness, many efforts have been made to develop accurate patient dose estimation methods. To date, Monte Carlo (MC) simulations are considered golden standard to simulate the interaction…

Our interest has been to study the effect that scattered radiation has on contrast, signal-to-noise ratio and thickness reconstruction in digital mammographies. Using the GEANT code we have performed Monte-Carlo simulations of 25 kVp Mo/Mo…

Medical Physics · Physics 2009-09-29 Varlen Grabski , Maria-Ester Brandan

Polarizability expressions are commonly used in optics and photonics to model the light scattering by small particles. Models based on Taylor series of the scattering coefficients of the particles fail to predict the morphologic resonances…

Optics · Physics 2017-08-02 Rémi Colom , Alexis Devilez , Stefan Enoch , Brian Stout , Nicolas Bonod

Multiple light scattering is widely used to characterize dense colloidal systems as well as in deep tissue imaging; experiments are often interpreted via a theory of diffusion of the light intensity within a sample, neglecting the vector…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 A. C. Maggs , V. Rossetto

We present numerical simulations of the periodic polarimetric variations produced by a binary star placed at the center of an empty spherical cavity inside a circumbinary ellipsoidal and optically thin envelope made of dust grains. Mie…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 N. Manset , P. Bastien

Biological tissues are complex structures composed of many elements which make light-based tissue diagnostics challenging. Over the past decades, Monte Carlo technique has been used as a fundamental and versatile approach toward modeling…

Optics · Physics 2024-05-17 Maryam Ghahremani

Radiative transfer simulation is an important tool that allows us to generate synthetic images of various astrophysical objects. In the case of complex three-dimensional geometries, a Monte Carlo-based method that simulates photon packages…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-27 A. Krieger , S. Wolf

We present the first numerical radiative transfer simulation of multiple light scattering in dust configurations containing aligned non-spherical (spheroidal) dust grains. Such models are especially important if one wants to explain the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 S. Wolf , N. V. Voshchinnikov , Th. Henning

Direct imaging has paved the way for atmospheric characterization of young and self-luminous gas giants. Scattering in a horizontally-inhomogeneous atmosphere causes the disk-integrated polarization of the thermal radiation to be linearly…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-09 Tomas Stolker , Michiel Min , Daphne M. Stam , Paul Mollière , Carsten Dominik , Rens Waters

One native source of quality deterioration in medical imaging, and especially in our case optical coherence tomography (OCT), is the turbid biological media in which photon does not take a predictable path and many scattering events would…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-26 Ali Alavi

We explore quantum-based optical polarimetry as a potential diagnostic tool for biological tissues by developing a theoretical and experimental framework to understand polarization-entangled photon behavior in scattering media. We…

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