Hardware acceleration of a Monte Carlo simulation for photodynamic therapy treatment planning

Journal of Biomedical Optics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Lo, William Chun Yip ^a   Redmond, Keith ^b   Luu, Jason ^b   Chow, Paul ^b   Rose, Jonathan ^b   Lilge, Lothar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

field programmable gate array; hardware acceleration; Monte Carlo multilayered media; Monte Carlo simulation; photodynamic therapy treatment planning; pipelining

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION TIME; DEVELOPMENT PLATFORM; DIFFUSE OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; DIGITAL HARDWARE IMPLEMENTATION; DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; EMISSION PROFILE; ENERGY EFFICIENT; FLUENCES; HARDWARE ACCELERATION; MC SIMULATION; MODELING LIGHT PROPAGATION; MONTE CARLO; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; MONTE CARLO SIMULATIONS; MULTI-LAYERED MEDIA; OPTICAL INTERACTIONS; PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY TREATMENT PLANNING; SKIN MODEL; SOURCE GEOMETRY; THERAPY TREATMENT; XEON PROCESSORS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS (FPGA); HARDWARE; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INVERSE PROBLEMS; LIGHT PROPAGATION; LOGIC GATES; MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; PLASMONS; TISSUE;

PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER ASSISTED THERAPY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHOTOCHEMOTHERAPY; RADIATION SCATTERING; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STATISTICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIGHT; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHOTOCHEMOTHERAPY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; THERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 65349163602     PISSN: 10833668     EISSN: 15602281     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.3080134     Document Type: Article

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