Real-time dose computation: GPU-accelerated source modeling and superposition/convolution

Medical Physics

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 294-305

  Jacques, Robert ^a   Wong, John ^a   Taylor, Russell ^b   McNutt, Todd ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

Author keywords

convolution superposition; graphics processing unit; inverse planning; radiation therapy planning; source modeling

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS EQUIPMENT; IMAGE CODING; INVERSE PROBLEMS; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; RAY TRACING;

ATTENUATION EFFECT; CONVOLUTION/SUPERPOSITION; CUMULATIVE-CUMULATIVE KERNELS; IMPROVING PERFORMANCE; INTERACTIVE RATES; INVERSE PLANNING; MULTILEAF COLLIMATORS; SOURCE MODELING;

GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNIT;

EID: 78650893054     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3483785     Document Type: Article

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