GPU-based fast pencil beam algorithm for proton therapy

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1319-1328

  Fujimoto, Rintaro ^a   Kurihara, Tsuneya ^a   Nagamine, Yoshihiko ^a  

^a HITACHI LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL TIME; DOSE CALCULATION; DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNIT; PENCIL BEAM ALGORITHMS; PROTON DOSE; PROTON THERAPY; STANDARD ALGORITHMS; TIME-CONSUMING PROCESS; TREATMENT PLANNING SYSTEMS; WATER PHANTOM;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS EQUIPMENT; NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTATION; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; PROTONS;

ALGORITHMS;

PROTON;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION DOSE; TIME;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; HUMANS; PROTONS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 79951923914     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/56/5/006     Document Type: Article

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