Accelerated ray tracing for radiotherapy dose calculations on a GPU

Medical Physics

Volumn 36, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 4095-4102

  De Greef, M ^a   Crezee, J ^a   Van Eijk, J C ^a   Pool, R ^a   Bel, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Dose calculation; GPU; Graphics card; Radiotherapy; Treatment planning

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER GRAPHICS EQUIPMENT; GEOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY; RAY TRACING; TABLE LOOKUP;

DISCRETIZATION ERRORS; DOSE CALCULATION; GRAPHICAL PROCESSING UNITS; GRAPHICS CARD; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING; RAY-TRACING ALGORITHM; TREATMENT OPTIMIZATION; TREATMENT PLANNING;

GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNIT;

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BODY POSITION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE CALCULATION; DOSIMETRY; EVALUATION; GEOMETRY; GRAPHICAL PROCESSING UNIT; HEAD; NECK; PELVIS; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DETECTION; RADIOTHERAPY; TREATMENT PLANNING; VELOCITY;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTERS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; PELVIC NEOPLASMS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 69549110064     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3190156     Document Type: Article

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