Detailed operation procedure of three polarized Monte Carlo programs and compulsory optimizations

Xin Cheng; Xiangzhao Wang; Feng Tang; Peng Bu

doi:10.1117/12.820596

6 March 2009 Detailed operation procedure of three polarized Monte Carlo programs and compulsory optimizations

Xin Cheng, Xiangzhao Wang, Feng Tang, Peng Bu

Proceedings Volume 7280, Seventh International Conference on Photonics and Imaging in Biology and Medicine; 72800G (2009) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.820596
Event: Photonics and Optoelectronics Meetings, 2008, Wuhan, China

Abstract

Propagation of light into randomly dispersed scattering media is a complicated problem that can be numerically simulated using statistical methods such as Monte Carlo. Jacques et al. have built three different Polarized Monte Carlo (PMC) programs (under UNIX terminal) to keep track of the status of polarization of light traveling through scattering media. However, several unexpected incidents such as running termination and datum overflow occur when the three PMC programs are executed. In this paper, based on a detailed description of the operation procedure of the three PMC programs, we analyze the reasons for termination and overflow and propose optimization method. The operation procedure exhibits that our compulsory optimizations make the programs run normally. Comparison with previous works shows that the optimized programs can generate more exact results.

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Xin Cheng, Xiangzhao Wang, Feng Tang, and Peng Bu "Detailed operation procedure of three polarized Monte Carlo programs and compulsory optimizations", Proc. SPIE 7280, Seventh International Conference on Photonics and Imaging in Biology and Medicine, 72800G (6 March 2009); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.820596

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