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The Virtual Photonics Technology Initiative was established by the Laser Microbeam and Medical Program (LAMMP), an NIH/NIBIB Biotechnology Resource Center at the Beckman Laser Institute and Medical Clinic (http://lammp.bli.uci.edu/) in April 2008.
LAMMP Use the following acknowledgement in publications or applications that make use of this open source software or underlying technology and research:
NIBIB"This work was made possible in part by the Laser Microbeam and Medical Program (LAMMP: P41 EB015890-33), an NIH/NIBIB Biotechnology Resource Center."
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(a) Design and distribute easy-to-use open-source software tools with graphical-user interfaces that simulate the propagation and distribution of optical radiation in cells and tissues.
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(b) Supply educational resources that provide the appropriate foundation for the proper usage of these computational tools.
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(c) Develop improved computational models to simulate and design optical diagnostic, imaging, and therapeutic modalities.
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(d) Stimulate the formation of an active community of 'experts' in Computational Biophotonics interested in offering their expertise and in developing advanced simulation tools to advance this open-source effort.
This program provides a GUI tool for calculating the characteristics of Mie scatterers. The tool calculates the spectral dependence of the ** scattering coefficient, scattering cross section, reduced scattering coefficient, phase function, average cosine of the phase function, forward / backward scattering percentage and scattering matrix entries for a single or series of wavelengths. These calculations can be run for mono-disperse and poly-disperse distributions based on Lorentz-Mie solution. The tool is also capable of estimating fitting parameters from the reduced scattering coefficient curve and is limited to the characteristics of the far-field scattering pattern. The Mie Simulator GUI was originally developed for National Short Course in Computational Biophotonics at Beckman Laser Institute.