Light transport in homogeneous tissue with m-dependent anisotropic scattering II: Fourier transform solution and...

This paper is the second of two focusing on the analytical solutions for light transport in infinite homogeneous tissue with an azimuth-dependent (m-dependent) anisotropic scattering kernel by two approaches, Case's singular eigenfuncions (CSEs) expansion and Fourier transform, and proving the consistence of the two solutions theoretically. In this paper, the analytical solution for the m-dependent truncated scattering kernel was derived via the Fourier transform and inversion, and expanded with the m-dependent generalized singular eigenfuncions (GSEs). Two kinds of GSEs that are defined by Ganapol in the case $$ are extended to arbitrary azimuthal orders and proven to be consistent with CSEs both in expression forms and in intrinsic behaviors. By applying the Fourier transform inversion on the solution for the three-term recurrences, the Green's function of radiance distributions is obtained successfully, and it conforms perfectly to the CSEs solution in the limit, which has already been discussed in our first accompanying paper. Meanwhile, as a byproduct, a series of identities about the m-dependent Chandrasekhar orthogonal polynomials were presented and will be greatly helpful for further studies.