The author of MMC is Qianqian Fang. Qianqian is currently an 
Associate Professor in the Department of Bioengineering at
Northeastern University, USA.

Address: Qianqian Fang
         Department of Bioengineering
         Northeastern University
         ISEC 206
         360 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA 02115, USA
         Office:   ISEC 223
         Phone[O]: 617-373-3829
URL: http://fanglab.org
Email: <q.fang at neu.edu>


The follow people had also contributed to this software:


* Yaoshen Yuan <yuan.yaos at northeastern.edu> (Fang Lab @ Northeastern University)

Yaoshen developed and published the implicit MMC (iMMC). This feature was incorporated
with the MMC main branch in the v2021.2 release.

Publication:

*[Yuan2021] Yaoshen Yuan, Shijie Yan, and Qianqian Fang*, "Light transport modeling in highly complex tissues using the implicit mesh-based Monte Carlo algorithm," Biomed. Optics Express, 12(1), 147-161, (2021)
*Summary:  Implicit MMC (iMMC)
*Download: https://www.osapublishing.org/boe/fulltext.cfm?uri=boe-12-1-147

* Shijie Yan <yan.shiji at northeastern.edu> (Fang Lab @ Northeastern University)

Shijie contributed to the systematic validation of DMMC and collaborated
with Ruoyang and completed "Photon Sharing" feature.

Publication:

*[Yan2019] Shijie Yan, Anh Phong Tran, Qianqian Fang*, “A dual-grid mesh-based Monte Carlo algorithm for efficient photon transport simulations in complex 3-D media,” J. of Biomedical Optics, 24(2), 020503 (2019).
*Summary: Dual-grid MMC for faster and more accurate mesh-based simulations
*Download: http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/1.JBO.24.2.020503


* Ruoyang Yao <yaoruoyang at gmail.com> (Intes Lab @ RPI)

Ruoyang has contributed to the development of the mesh-retessellation
based MMC to support wide-field illumination and detection strategies.

Publication:
*[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

*[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


* Jin Chen <kikyouchen at gmail.com> (Intes Lab @ RPI)

Jin has contributed to the development of the axis-aligned 
parallel-beam based MMC (AAPB-MMC) to support wide-field 
illumination in the "widefield" code branch.

Publication:
[Chen2012] Chen J, Fang Q, Intes X, "Mesh-based Monte Carlo method in time-domain 
widefield fluorescence molecular tomography," Journal of Biomedical Optics, 
17(10), 106009 2012


* Stefan Carp <carp at nmr.mgh.harvard.edu>

Stefan contributed a patch to enable DCS (Diffuse Correlation 
Spectroscopy) modeling with MMC. He also added validation 
examples and MATLAB units for DCS related computation. 
