GPU-accelerated Monte Carlo convolution/superposition implementation for dose calculation

Medical Physics

Volumn 37, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 5593-5603

  Zhou, Bo ^a   Yu, Cedric X ^a   Chen, Danny Z ^b   Hu, X Sharon ^b  

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

^b University of Notre Dame   (United States)

Author keywords

dose calculation; GPU acceleration; Monte Carlo

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS EQUIPMENT; CONVOLUTION; FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS (FPGA); MONTE CARLO METHODS; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; RADIOTHERAPY; STATISTICAL MECHANICS;

CONVOLUTION/SUPERPOSITION; DETERMINISTIC METHODS; DOSE CALCULATION; GPU ACCELERATIONS; HARDWARE ARCHITECTURE; MULTITHREADED SOFTWARES; RADIATION TREATMENT PLANNING; STATISTICAL FLUCTUATIONS;

GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNIT;

EID: 78149430704     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3490083     Document Type: Article

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