Nirfast is an FEM based package for modeling Near-Infrared light transport in tissue. This includes:
  • Standard single wavelength absorption and reduced scatter
  • Multi-wavelength spectrally constrained models
  • Fluorescence models

Nirfast v7.1 [Updates]


Nirview v1.10 - a new tool for segmentation
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If you use Nirfast for a publication, please reference:
  • Hamid Dehghani et al. "Near infrared optical tomography using NIRFAST: Algorithm for numerical model and image reconstruction," Communications in Numerical Methods in Engineering 2009.
  • Michael Jermyn et al. "A Seamless User-Enabling Workflow for Modeling Near-Infrared Light Transport in Tissue," OSA Biomed 2012.