GPU-based fast gamma index calculation

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1431-1441

  Gu, Xuejun ^a   Jia, Xun ^a   Jiang, Steve B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION TIME; COMPUTATIONAL TOOLS; DISTANCE SPACE; DOSE COMPARISON; DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; EUCLIDEAN DISTANCE; EXHAUSTIVE SEARCH; GEOMETRIC METHOD; GPU COMPUTATION; GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNITS; HIGH RESOLUTION; INDEX CALCULATION; TESTING CASE;

PROGRAM PROCESSORS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; GAMMA RADIATION; RADIATION DOSE; TIME;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTERS; GAMMA RAYS; RADIATION DOSAGE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 79951859711     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/56/5/014     Document Type: Article

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