Abstract
Image modeling based on the Monte Carlo method is time consuming because a large number of incident photons are required to ensure a required accuracy. The requiring of computational time increases significantly when images of complicated objects embedded in a turbid medium are modeled. To address this problem, the concept of the effective point spread function (EPSF) has been introduced in this chapter for imaging through turbid media [1]. Section 4.1 provides the detailed conceptual development of the EPSF and numerical simulations of image formation of one-dimensional and two-dimensional objects are detailed in Sect. 4.2.
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Gu, M., Gan, X., Deng, X. (2015). Effective Point Spread Function. In: Microscopic Imaging Through Turbid Media. Biological and Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-46397-0_4
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