Abstract
We present a fast algorithm for finding solutions to the diffusion equation in volumes with curved surfaces. This method can be used instead of more computationally intensive algorithms based on a finite elements of finite differences approach. As an application of our method, we show that mishandling surface boundaries in small-animal fluorescence imaging can severely limit the quality of tomography images.
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