Next-generation acceleration and code optimization for light transport in turbid media using GPUs

Biomedical Optics Express

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 658-675

  Alerstam, Erik ^a   Lo, William Chun Yip ^b   Han, Tianyi David ^d   Rose, Jonathan ^d   Andersson Engels, Stefan ^a   Lilge, Lothar ^b,c  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER COMPUTING; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INVERSE PROBLEMS; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; OPTIMIZATION; PHOTONICS; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; TISSUE; TURBIDITY;

BIO PHOTONICS; BIOLOGICAL TISSUES; CODE OPTIMIZATION; COMPUTATION TIME; GENERAL-PURPOSE COMPUTING; GOLD STANDARDS; GRAPHICS CARD; GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNIT; HETEROGENEOUS TISSUES; LIGHT TRANSPORT; MC SIMULATION; MONTE CARLO; OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARES; OPTIMIZATION SCHEME; OPTIMIZATION TECHNIQUES; PERFORMANCE BOTTLENECKS; SHARED MEMORIES; SKIN MODEL; TREATMENT PLANNING; TURBID MEDIA;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS EQUIPMENT;

EID: 79953117377     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21567085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/BOE.1.000658     Document Type: Article

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