Relation between fluence rate and mean photons pathlengths: an interesting option for Monte Carlo-based fluence calculations in biomedical optics

Fabrizio Martelli; Angelo Sassaroli; Federico Tommasi; Lorenzo Fini; Stefano Cavalieri

doi:10.1117/12.2650519

7 March 2023 Relation between fluence rate and mean photons pathlengths: an interesting option for Monte Carlo-based fluence calculations in biomedical optics

Fabrizio Martelli, Angelo Sassaroli, Federico Tommasi, Lorenzo Fini, Stefano Cavalieri

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Proceedings Volume 12376, Optical Tomography and Spectroscopy of Tissue XV; 123760P (2023) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2650519
Event: SPIE BiOS, 2023, San Francisco, California, United States

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Abstract

Traditionally, in biomedical optics, the photons mean fluence rate assessed in a sub-volume of a propagating medium is obtained with Monte Carlo (MC) simulations by calculating the deposited power by the absorbed photons in the sub-volume. We propose an alternative method based on the assessment of the mean pathlength traveled by all the injected photons inside the sub-volume. Examples of its applications are given. This method also works for nil absorption coefficient and for a non-constant spatial distribution of the absorption coefficient inside the sub-volume. The proposed approach is a re-visitation of a well-known method applied in radiation and nuclear physics. The relation at the basis of the method descends from the ground definitions of quantities employed in radiative transfer. The results obtained show that a potential advantage of the proposed method is that it can improve the convergence of the MC simulations. Indeed, when calculating the fluence in a region of interest with the proposed method all the photons that cross the region are considered. While, with the traditional approach only the “absorbed”photons can contribute to the calculated fluence. In the latter case, this may produce a poorer MC statistic for the same number of launched photons.

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Fabrizio Martelli, Angelo Sassaroli, Federico Tommasi, Lorenzo Fini, and Stefano Cavalieri "Relation between fluence rate and mean photons pathlengths: an interesting option for Monte Carlo-based fluence calculations in biomedical optics", Proc. SPIE 12376, Optical Tomography and Spectroscopy of Tissue XV, 123760P (7 March 2023); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2650519

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