An FPGA solution for radiation dose calculation

Proceedings - 14th Annual IEEE Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines, FCCM 2006

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 227-236

  Whitton, Kevin ^a   Hu, X Sharon ^a   Yu, Cedric X ^b   Chen, Danny Z ^a  

^a University of Notre Dame   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; DOSIMETRY; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; RADIOTHERAPY; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

CONVOLUTION/SUPERPOSITION ALGORITHMS; FPGA IMPLEMENTATION; SOFTWARE IMPLEMENTION;

FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS (FPGA);

EID: 34547490827     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/FCCM.2006.23     Document Type: Conference Paper

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