GPU-based fast Monte Carlo simulation for radiotherapy dose calculation

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 56, Issue 22, 2011, Pages 7017-7031

  Jia, Xun ^a   Gu, Xuejun ^a   Graves, Yan Jiang ^a   Folkerts, Michael ^a   Jiang, Steve B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL APPLICATION; DOSE CALCULATION; DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; DOSE PLANNING; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; EXECUTION PATHS; FLUENCES; GPU COMPUTING; GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNIT; HIGH DOSE; HIGH EFFICIENCY; ITS EFFICIENCIES; LINEAR INTERPOLATION; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; MONTE CARLO SIMULATIONS; PARALLEL COMPUTATION; PARTICLE TRANSPORT; PATIENT CASE; PHOTON TRANSPORT; RANDOM NUMBER GENERATORS; RECENT PROGRESS; RELATIVE UNCERTAINTY; SIMULATION ACCURACY; SPEED-UP FACTORS; STANDARD DEVIATION; THREAD DIVERGENCES; TREATMENT PLANS;

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EFFICIENCY; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NUMBER THEORY; PHOTONS; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; RADIOTHERAPY; RANDOM NUMBER GENERATION;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS EQUIPMENT;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRON; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHOTON; RADIATION DOSE; TIME;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRONS; HUMANS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PHOTONS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 80155134727     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/56/22/002     Document Type: Article

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