Papers

If you use MCX/MMC/MCX-CL in your research, we appreciate if you can cite our relevant papers in your publications.

MCX

• [Fang2009] Qianqian Fang and David Boas, "Monte Carlo Simulation of Photon Migration in 3D Turbid Media Accelerated by Graphics Processing Units," Opt. Express, vol. 17, issue 22, pp. 20178-20190 (2009).
• Summary: original MCX paper
• Download: http://www.osapublishing.org/oe/abstract.cfm?uri=oe-17-22-20178

MCX-CL

• [Yu2018] Leiming Yu, Fanny Nina-Paravecino, David Kaeli, Qianqian Fang, "Scalable and massively parallel Monte Carlo photon transport simulations for heterogeneous computing platforms," J. Biomed. Opt. 23(1), 010504 (2018).
• Summary: original MCX-CL (OpenCL) paper
• Download: https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/journals/journal-of-biomedical-optics/volume-23/issue-01/010504/Scalable-and-massively-parallel-Monte-Carlo-photon-transport-simulations-for/10.1117/1.JBO.23.1.010504.full?SSO=1#ArticleLink

MMC

• [Fang2010] Qianqian Fang, "Mesh-based Monte Carlo method using fast ray-tracing in Plücker coordinates," Biomed. Opt. Express 1(1), 165-175 (2010)
• Summary: original MMC paper
• Download: https://www.osapublishing.org/boe/abstract.cfm?uri=boe-1-1-165

• [Fang2011] Qianqian Fang, “Comment on ‘A study on tetrahedron-based inhomogeneous Monte-Carlo optical simulation’,” Biomed. Opt. Express, vol. 2, issue 5, pp. 1258-1264, 2011.
• Summary: MMC ray-tracing comparisons
• Download: https://www.osapublishing.org/boe/abstract.cfm?uri=boe-2-5-1258

• [Fang2012] Qianqian Fang and David R. Kaeli, "Accelerating mesh-based Monte Carlo method on modern CPU architectures ," Biomed. Opt. Express 3(12), 3223-3230 (2012)
• Summary: SIMD MMC
• Download: https://www.osapublishing.org/boe/abstract.cfm?uri=boe-3-12-3223

• [Yao2016] Ruoyang Yao, Xavier Intes, Qianqian Fang*, "Generalized mesh-based Monte Carlo for wide-field illumination and detection via mesh retessellation," Biomed. Optics Express, 7(1), 171-184, (2016)
• Summary: Widefield MMC
• Download: https://www.osapublishing.org/boe/abstract.cfm?uri=boe-7-1-171

General MC algorithm

• [Yao2018] Ruoyang Yao, Xavier Intes, Qianqian Fang*, "A direct approach to compute Jacobians for diffuse optical tomography using perturbation Monte Carlo-based photon 'replay'," Biomed. Optics Express 9(10), 4588-4603, (2018)
• Summary: Building Jacobians with replay in MCX/MMC
• Download: https://www.osapublishing.org/boe/abstract.cfm?uri=boe-9-10-4588

• [Yuan2018] Yaoshen Yuan, Leiming Yu, Zafer Doğan, Qianqian Fang, "Graphics processing units-accelerated adaptive nonlocal means filter for denoising three-dimensional Monte Carlo photon transport simulations," J. of Biomedical Optics, 23(12), 121618 (2018).
• Summary: Denoising MC simulation using a noise-adaptive filter
• Download: https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/journalArticle/Download?fullDOI=10.1117%2F1.JBO.23.12.121618