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MODELING OF LIGHT SCATTERING BY SINGLE RED BLOOD CELLS WITH THE FDTD METHOD

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Optics of Biological Particles

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Scattering of light is one of major pathways that biological cells interact with optical radiation in a wide spectral region from ultraviolet to near-infrared. In this region the size parameters of most human cells vary from about 10 to 100, and accurate modeling of scattering requires treatment of light as electromagnetic waves. In this chapter, we review the generic aspects of the finite-difference-time-domain (FDTD) method for solving the problems of light scattering by biological cells and a parallel FDTD algorithm for numerical computation. Furthermore, we review a specific application of FDTD to the simulation of the scattering properties of single human red blood cells with biconcave and deformed shapes.

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Lu, J.Q., Brock, R.S., Yang, P., Hu, XH. (2007). MODELING OF LIGHT SCATTERING BY SINGLE RED BLOOD CELLS WITH THE FDTD METHOD. In: Hoekstra, A., Maltsev, V., Videen, G. (eds) Optics of Biological Particles. NATO Science Series, vol 238. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5502-7_7

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