Patient-specific modelling of pulmonary airflow using GPU cluster for the application in medical practice

Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 15, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 771-778

  Miki, T ^a   Wang, X ^b   Aoki, T ^b   Imai, Y ^a   Ishikawa, T ^a   Takase, K ^a   Yamaguchi, T ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

high performance computing; lattice Boltzmann method; multi GPU computation; patient specific modelling; pulmonary airflow simulation

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MESHING; CARTESIAN MESH; COMPUTATION SPEED; DATA ACCESS; GPU CLUSTERS; GPU COMPUTATION; GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNIT; HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMPUTING; LATTICE BOLTZMANN METHOD; LATTICE BOLTZMANN METHODS (LBM); MEDICAL PRACTICE; OPTIMISATIONS; PATIENT-SPECIFIC MODELLING; PULMONARY AIRFLOW; SUB-DOMAINS;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; PROGRAM PROCESSORS;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS EQUIPMENT;

ARTICLE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BREATHING MECHANICS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVALUATION; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HYDRODYNAMICS; PHYSIOLOGY; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; HYDRODYNAMICS; MODELS, ANATOMIC; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RESPIRATORY MECHANICS; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM;

EID: 84862298225     PISSN: 10255842     EISSN: 14768259     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10255842.2011.560842     Document Type: Article

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