Laguerre Runge-Kutta-Fehlberg method for simulating laser pulse propagation in biological tissue

Laguerre Runge-Kutta-Fehlberg method for simulating laser pulse propagation in biological tissue

Handapangoda, C, Premaratne, M, Yeo, L and Friend, J 2008, 'Laguerre Runge-Kutta-Fehlberg method for simulating laser pulse propagation in biological tissue', IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 105-112.

Document type:	Journal Article
Collection:	Journal Articles

Title	Laguerre Runge-Kutta-Fehlberg method for simulating laser pulse propagation in biological tissue
Author(s)	Handapangoda, C Premaratne, M Yeo, L Friend, J
Year	2008
Journal name	IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics
Volume number	14
Issue number	1
Start page	105
End page	112
Total pages	8
Publisher	IEEE
Abstract	An efficient algorithm for solving the transient radiative transfer equation for laser pulse propagation in biological tissue is presented. A Laguerre expansion is used to represent the time dependency of the incident short pulse. The Runge-Kutta-Fehlberg method is used to solve the intensity. The discrete ordinates method is used to discretize with respect to azimuthal and zenith angles. This method offers the advantages of representing the intensity with a high accuracy using only a few Laguerre polynomials, and straightforward extension to inhomogeneous media. Also, this formulation can be easily extended for solving the 2-D and 3-D transient radiative transfer equations
Subject	Photonics and Electro-Optical Engineering (excl. Communications) Applied Mathematics not elsewhere classified Lasers and Quantum Electronics
Keyword(s)	biological tissue discrete ordinates method Laguerre expansion Runge-Kutta-Fehlberg (RKF) method
Copyright notice	© 2008 IEEE
ISSN	1077-260X

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