GPU accelerated FDTD solver and its application in MRI

2010 Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC'10

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 3305-3308

  Chi, J ^a   Liu, F ^b   Jin, J ^b   Mason, D G ^b   Crozier, S ^b  

^a QINGDAO UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL POWER; FDTD SIMULATIONS; GPU IMPLEMENTATION; GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNIT; HIGH-FIELD; LIMITING FACTORS; RUNTIMES;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS EQUIPMENT; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; RESONANCE;

COMPUTATIONAL ELECTROMAGNETICS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; EVALUATION STUDY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 78650827073     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2010.5627497     Document Type: Conference Paper

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