TY - JOUR
T1 - Special Section Guest Editorial
T2 - Pioneer in Biomedical Optics: Introduction to the Special Section in Honor of Steven L. Jacques
AU - Hielscher, Andreas H.
AU - Ramella-Roman, Jessica
AU - Wang, Lihong V.
N1 - Funding Information:
his first NIH grant, entitled “Dosimetry of laser/tissue interactions.” As part of this effort, Steve continued his work on Monte Carlo methods and together with his postdoc, Lihong Wang, he went on to develop the now famous MCML Monte Carlo simulation package. They made this package publicly available along with the source code, and today this tool is the de facto gold standard in the field. It has been widely used worldwide to simulate photon propagation in biological tissues for both teaching and research purposes. With over 3,000 citations, the related publication4 is one of the most often cited papers in our field. The companion paper5 has been cited hundreds of times as well. This code and derivations of it have become ubiquitously used throughout the biomedical optics world; the creation and open source distribution of it was the impetus for much of the growth in understanding of how light-tissue interactions happen.
PY - 2018/12/1
Y1 - 2018/12/1
N2 - This guest editorial introduces the special section honoring Prof. Steven L. Jacques.
AB - This guest editorial introduces the special section honoring Prof. Steven L. Jacques.
KW - Biomedical Engineering
KW - Humans
KW - Optical Imaging
KW - Optics and Photonics
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U2 - 10.1117/1.JBO.23.12.121601
DO - 10.1117/1.JBO.23.12.121601
M3 - Article
C2 - 30574694
AN - SCOPUS:85058897381
SN - 1083-3668
VL - 23
JO - Journal of biomedical optics
JF - Journal of biomedical optics
IS - 12
M1 - 121601
ER -