This year marks the 20th anniversary of functional near-infrared spectroscopy and imaging
(fNIRS/fNIRI). As the vast majority of commercial instruments developed until now are based …

The development of optical methods in modern medicine in the areas of diagnostics,
therapy, and surgery has stimulated the investigation of optical properties of various …

Differentiable physically-based rendering has become an indispensable tool for solving
inverse problems involving light. Most applications in this area jointly optimize a large set of …

A general survey is provided on the capability of Monte Carlo (MC) modeling in tissue optics
while paying special attention to the recent progress in the development of methods for …

Near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) and diffuse optical imaging (DOI) are finding widespread
application in the study of human brain activation, motivating further application-specific …

We describe a novel Monte Carlo code for photon migration through 3D media with spatially
varying optical properties. The code is validated against analytic solutions of the photon …

General-purpose computing on graphics processing units (GPGPU) is shown to dramatically
increase the speed of Monte Carlo simulations of photon migration. In a standard simulation …

Physically based differentiable rendering algorithms propagate derivatives through realistic
light transport simulations and have applications in diverse areas including inverse …

This article reviews the past and current statuses of time-domain near-infrared spectroscopy
(TD-NIRS) and imaging. Although time-domain technology is not yet widely employed due to …

A highly optimized Monte Carlo (MC) code package for simulating light transport is
developed on the latest graphics processing unit (GPU) built for general-purpose computing …