Authors

ValoMC is being developed by Aleksi Leino, Aki Pulkkinen, Tuomas Lunttila and Tanja Tarvainen at University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland.

The homepage is maintained by Aleksi Leino.

The MATLAB interface is written by Aleksi Leino, Aki Pulkkinen, Tanja Tarvainen.

The C++ simulation code is written by Aki Pulkkinen, Aleksi Leino, Tanja Tarvainen.

How to cite

If you use ValoMC in your work, please reference it with the following citation:

A.A. Leino, A. Pulkkinen and T. Tarvainen, ValoMC: a Monte Carlo software and MATLAB toolbox for simulating light transport in biological tissue, OSA Continuum 2, 957-972 (2019).

How to contact us

You can report an issue on GitHub.

Licensing information

The ValoMC software (MATLAB and C++ source code for the software) is published under MIT-licence:

ValoMC Copyright (C) 2018 Aleksi Leino, Aki Pulkkinen and Tanja Tarvainen.

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The software uses Mersenne-Twister random number generation code by Makoto Matsumoto and Takuji Nishimura (mt_rng.hpp):

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