Accelerating Monte Carlo simulations of radiation therapy dose distributions using wavelet threshold de-noising

Medical Physics

Volumn 29, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 2366-2373

  Deasy, Joseph O ^a   Wickerhauser, M Victor ^b   Picard, Mathieu ^c  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE   (France)

Author keywords

Monte Carlo; Wavelet threshold de noising

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; DIGITAL ARITHMETIC; ELECTRONS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; PHANTOMS; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

COMPUTATIONALLY EFFICIENT; DIGITAL REPRESENTATIONS; FLOATING POINT ARITHMETIC OPERATION; MONTE CARLO DOSE CALCULATION; TWO-DIMENSIONAL DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; WAVELET COEFFICIENTS; WAVELET THRESHOLD DE-NOISING; WAVELET TRANSFORM COEFFICIENTS;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; DOSE CALCULATION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION;

PANTHERA TIGRIS;

EID: 0036797123     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1508112     Document Type: Article

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