Simulating Transillumination in Organic Material with Near Infrared Light

Abstract

We investigate problems involving light diffusion through arbitrary meshes with inhomogeneous scattering properties. We focus on three main areas: rapid source calculation, efficient solution and solution updates and robust quality adaptive meshing. Preliminary results show that we have a speedup of an order of magnitude compared to naive implementations with similar error rates. We expect this work to be valuable to researchers who are interested in efficient accurate solutions when simulating near infrared subsurface scattering in tissue to validate or understand the physics behind their experiments