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Light propagation in biological tissues
Applied Math| Speaker: | Arnold Kim, Stanford University |
| Location: | 693 Kerr |
| Start time: | Fri, Apr 30 2004, 4:10PM |
Description
Understanding light propagation in biological tissues
has practical applications to medical imaging,
diagnosis and monitoring. The radiative transport
equation governs light propagation in tissues. It takes
into account scattering and absorption due to
inhomogeneities in the medium. One important area of
tissue optics research is obstacle scattering.
Understanding obstacle scattering in tissues is a key
step towards developing methods to locate and classify
anomalies such as tumors. In this talk we discuss the
problem in which the obstacle is a thin absorbing
plate. Throughout the discussion of this problem, we
draw several analogies to the classical theory of
diffraction.