GPU-based Monte Carlo simulation for light propagation in complex heterogeneous tissues

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 6811-6823

  Ren, Nunu ^a   Liang, Jimin ^a   Qu, Xiaochao ^a   Li, Jianfeng ^a   Lu, Bingjia ^a   Tian, Jie ^a,b  

^a XIDIAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF AUTOMATION   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER GRAPHICS EQUIPMENT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HISTOLOGY; LIGHT; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; SEMICONDUCTOR COUNTERS; TISSUE;

ACCESS LATENCY; COMPUTATIONAL TIME; COMPUTE UNIFIED DEVICE ARCHITECTURES; GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNIT; HETEROGENEOUS TISSUES; MC SIMULATION; MONTE CARLO; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; MOUSE MODELS; NUMBER OF TRIANGLES; OPTICAL MOLECULAR IMAGING; PARALLEL IMPLEMENTATIONS; STRUCTURAL COMPLEXITY; TEXTURE MEMORY;

LIGHT PROPAGATION;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COMPUTER; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR IMAGING; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MOUSE; OPTICS; PHOTON; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTERS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LIGHT; MICE; MOLECULAR IMAGING; MONTE CARLO METHOD; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; PHOTONS; SOFTWARE; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 77950230028     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.006811     Document Type: Article

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