GPU-based ultra-fast dose calculation using a finite size pencil beam model

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 54, Issue 20, 2009, Pages 6287-6297

  Gu, Xuejun ^a   Choi, Dongju ^b   Men, Chunhua ^a   Pan, Hubert ^a   Majumdar, Amitava ^b   Jiang, Steve B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE RADIATION THERAPIES; ADAPTIVE RADIOTHERAPY; BEAMLETS; COMPUTATIONAL TIME; CRITICAL COMPONENT; DATA PARALLEL; DEPOSIT COEFFICIENT; DOSE CALCULATION; DOSE DEPOSITION; FINITE SIZE; INTENSITY-MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; ON-LINE PLANNING; OPTIMAL TREATMENT; PARALLEL COMPUTING; PATIENT ANATOMY; PENCIL BEAM; PROSTATE CANCERS; RE-PLANNING; TECHNICAL LIMITATIONS; ULTRA-FAST; VOXEL SIZE; WATER PHANTOM;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS EQUIPMENT; NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTATION; PARALLEL ALGORITHMS; PARALLEL ARCHITECTURES; PHYSICAL THERAPY; PROGRAM PROCESSORS;

RADIOTHERAPY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSE CALCULATION; FINITE SIZE PENCIL BEAM; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTERS; COMPUTING METHODOLOGIES; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; SOFTWARE; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 70449091261     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/54/20/017     Document Type: Article

References (30)

1. Birkner M, Yan D, Alber M, Liang J and Nusslin F 2003 Adapting inverse planning to patient and organ geometrical variation: algorithm and implementation Med. Phys. 30 2822-31
2. Bourland J D and Chaney E L 1992 A finite-size pencil beam model for photon dose calculation in three dimensions Med. Phys. 19 1401-12
3. de la Zerda A, Armbruster B and Xing L 2007 Formulating adaptive radiation therapy (ART) treatment planning into a closed-loop control framework Phys. Med. Biol. 52 4137-53
4. Dubash M 2005 Moore's Law is dead, says Gordon Moore Techworld http://news.techworld.com/operating-systems/3477
5. Fox C, Romeijn H E and Dempsey J F 2006 Fast voxel and polygon ray-tracing algorithms in intensity modulated radiation therapy treatment planning Med. Phys. 33 1364-71
6. Fu W H, Yang Y, Yue N J, Heron D E and Huq M S 2009 A cone beam CT-guided online plan modification technique to correct interfractional anatomic changes for prostate cancer IMRT treatment Phys. Med. Biol. 54 1691-703
7. Godley A, Ahunbay E, Peng C and Li X A 2009 Automated registration of large deformations for adaptive radiation therapy of prostate cancer Med. Phys. 36 1433-41
8. Hissoiny S, Ozell B and Despres P 2009 Fast convolution-superposition dose calculation on graphics hardware Med. Phys. 36 1998-2005
9. Jacques R, Taylor R, Wong J and McNutt T 2008 Towards real-time radiation therapy: GPU accelerated superposition/convolution High-Performance MICCAI Workshop
10. Jaffray D A, Siewerdsen J H, Wong J W and Martinez A A 2002 Flat-panel cone-beam computed tomography for image-guided radiation therapy Int. J. Radiat. Oncol. Biol. Phys. 53 1337-49
11. Jelen U, Sohn M and Alber M 2005 A finite size pencil beam for IMRT dose optimization Phys. Med. Biol. 50 1747-66
12. Jiang S B 1998 Development of a Compensator Based Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy System PhD Thesis Medical College of Ohio, Toledo, OH
13. Lin H, Wu Y C and Chen Y X 2006 'A finite size pencil beam for IMRT dose optimization'-a simpler analytical function for the finite size pencil beam kernel Phys. Med. Biol. 51 L13-5
14. Lu W G, Chen M, Chen Q, Ruchala K and Olivera G 2008 Adaptive fractionation therapy: I. Basic concept and strategy Phys. Med. Biol. 53 5495-511
15. Meihua L, Haiquan Y, Koizumi K and Kudo H 2007 Fast cone-beam CT reconstruction using CUDA architecture Med. Imag. Technol. 243-50
16. Mohan R, Zhang X D, Wang H, Kang Y X, Wang X C, Liu H, Ang K, Kuban D and Dong L 2005 Use of deformed intensity distributions for on-line modification of image-guided IMRT to account for interfractional anatomic changes Int. J. Radiat. Oncol. Biol. Phys. 61 1258-66
17. Noe K O, De Senneville B D, Elstrom U V, Tanderup K and Sorensen T S 2008 Acceleration and validation of optical flow based deformable registration for image-guided radiotherapy Acta Oncol. 47 1286-93
18. NVIDIA 2009 NVIDIA CUDA Compute Unified Device Architecture, Programming Guide version 2.2 (NVIDIA)
19. Ostapiak O Z, Zhu Y and VanDyk J 1997 Refinements of the finite-size pencil beam model of three-dimensional photon dose calculation Med. Phys. 24 743-50
20. Preis T, Virnau P, Paul W and Schneider J J 2009 GPU accelerated Monte Carlo simulation of the 2D and 3D Ising model J. Comput. Phys. 228 4468-77
21. Riabkov D, Brown T, Cheryauka A and Tokhtuev A 2008 Hardware accelerated C-arm CT and fluoroscopy: a pilot study Proc. SPIE-Int. Soc. Opt. Eng. 69132 V-1-9
22. Samant S S, Xia J Y, Muyan-Ozcelilk P and Owens J D 2008 High performance computing for deformable image registration: towards a new paradigm in adaptive radiotherapy Med. Phys. 35 3546-53
23. Sharp G C, Kandasamy N, Singh H and Folkert M 2007 GPU-based streaming architectures for fast cone-beam CT image reconstruction and demons deformable registration Phys. Med. Biol. 52 5771-83
24. Siddon R L 1985 Fast calculation of the exact radiological path for a 3-dimensional CT array Med. Phys. 12 252-5
25. Wu C, Jeraj R, Lu W G and Mackie T R 2004 Fast treatment plan modification with an over-relaxed Cimmino algorithm Med. Phys. 31 191-200
26. Wu C, Jeraj R, Olivera G H and Mackie T R 2002 Re-optimization in adaptive radiotherapy Phys. Med. Biol. 47 3181-95
27. Wu Q J, Thongphiew D, Wang Z, Mathayomchan B, Chankong V, Yoo S, Lee W R and Yin F F 2008 On-line re-optimization of prostate IMRT plans for adaptive radiation therapy Phys. Med. Biol. 53 673-91
28. Xu F and Mueller K 2007 Real-time 3D computed tomographic reconstruction using commodity graphics hardware Phys. Med. Biol. 52 3405-19 (Pubitemid 46830633)
29. Yan D, Lockman D, Martinez A, Wong J, Brabbins D, Vicini F, Liang J and Kestin L 2005 Computed tomography guided management of interfractional patient variation Semin. Radiat. Oncol. 15 168-79
30. Yan D, Vicini F, Wong J and Martinez A 1997 Adaptive radiation therapy Phys. Med. Biol. 42 123-32