Ultra-Fast Digital Tomosynthesis Reconstruction Using General-Purpose GPU Programming for Image-Guided Radiation therapy

Technology in Cancer Research and Treatment

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 295-306

  Park, Justin C ^a,e   Park, Sung Ho ^b   Kim, Jin Sung ^c   Han, Youngyih ^c   Cho, Min Kook ^d   Kim, Ho Kyung ^d   Liu, Zhaowei ^e   Jiang, Steve B ^a   Song, Bongyong ^a   Song, William Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of Ulsan College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^c Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

^d Pusan National University   (South Korea)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Digital tomosynthesis; FDK; GPU programming; IGRT; On board imager

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONE BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIGITAL TOMOSYNTHESIS; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING SYSTEM; LIVER CANCER; LUNG CANCER; PROSTATE CANCER;

EID: 80053286462     PISSN: 15330346     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7785/tcrt.2012.500206     Document Type: Article

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