ArticleJournal of biomedical optics2020
Modeling voxel-based Monte Carlo light transport with curved and oblique boundary surfaces.
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Abstract
significanceMonte Carlo (MC) light transport simulations are most often performed in regularly spaced three-dimensional voxels, a type of data representation that naturally struggles to represent boundary surfaces with curvature and oblique angles. Not accounting properly for such boundaries with an index of refractivity, mismatches can lead to important inaccuracies, not only in the calculated angles of reflection and transmission but also in the amount of light that transmits through or reflects from these mismatched boundary surfaces.
aimA new MC light transport algorithm is introduced to deal with curvature and oblique angles of incidence when simulated photons encounter mismatched boundary surfaces. APPROACH: The core of the proposed algorithm applies the efficient preprocessing step of calculating a gradient map of the mismatched boundaries, a smoothing step on this calculated 3D vector field to remove surface roughness due to discretization and an interpolation scheme to improve the handling of curvature.
resultsThrough simulations of light hitting the side of a sphere and going through a lens, the agreement of this approach with analytical solutions is shown to be strong.
conclusionsThe MC method introduced here has the advantage of requiring only slight implementation changes from the current state-of-the-art to accurately simulate mismatched boundaries and readily exploit the acceleration of general-purpose graphics processing units. A code implementation, mcxyzn, is made available and maintained at https://omlc.org/software/mc/mcxyzn/.
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