A real-time radiation dose monitoring system for patients and staff during interventional uoroscopy using a GPU-accelerated Monte Carlo simulator and an automatic 3D localization system based on a depth camera

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 8668, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Badal, Andreu ^a   Zafar, Fahad ^a,b   Dong, Han ^a,b   Badano, Aldo ^a  

^a CENTER FOR DRUG EVALUATION AND RESEARCH   (United States)

^b Baltimore County   (United States)

Author keywords

Depth camera; Dosimetry; GPU; Monte carlo; Uoroscopy

Indexed keywords

DEPTH CAMERA; GEOMETRICAL CONFIGURATIONS; GPU; MONTE CARLO; MONTE CARLO SIMULATIONS; RADIATION MONITORING SYSTEM; UOROSCOPY; VARIANCE REDUCTION TECHNIQUES;

CAMERAS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOSIMETRY; ESTIMATION; MEDICAL IMAGING; MONITORING; NUCLEAR REACTORS; OBJECT RECOGNITION; PHASE SPACE METHODS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; X RAYS;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

EID: 84878316158     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.2008031     Document Type: Conference Paper

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