GPU computing in medical physics: A review

G Pratx, L **ng - Medical physics, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
The graphics processing unit (GPU) has emerged as a competitive platform for computing
massively parallel problems. Many computing applications in medical physics can be …

GPU-based high-performance computing for radiation therapy

X Jia, P Ziegenhein, SB Jiang - Physics in Medicine & Biology, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
Recent developments in radiotherapy therapy demand high computation powers to solve
challenging problems in a timely fashion in a clinical environment. The graphics processing …

GPUMCD: A new GPU‐oriented Monte Carlo dose calculation platform

S Hissoiny, B Ozell, H Bouchard, P Després - Medical physics, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: Monte Carlo methods are considered as the gold standard for dosimetric
computations in radiotherapy. Their execution time is, however, still an obstacle to the …

GMC: a GPU implementation of a Monte Carlo dose calculation based on Geant4

L Jahnke, J Fleckenstein, F Wenz… - Physics in Medicine & …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a GPU implementation called GMC (GPU Monte Carlo) of the low energy (< 100
GeV) electromagnetic part of the Geant4 Monte Carlo code using the NVIDIA® CUDA …

Clinical implementation of a GPU-based simplified Monte Carlo method for a treatment planning system of proton beam therapy

R Kohno, K Hotta, S Nishioka… - Physics in Medicine …, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
We implemented the simplified Monte Carlo (SMC) method on graphics processing unit
(GPU) architecture under the computer-unified device architecture platform developed by …

Validation of GPU based TomoTherapy dose calculation engine

Q Chen, W Lu, Y Chen, M Chen, D Henderson… - Medical …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: The graphic processing unit (GPU) based TomoTherapy convolution/superposition
(C/S) dose engine (GPU dose engine) achieves a dramatic performance improvement over …

Ultrafast convolution/superposition using tabulated and exponential kernels on GPU

Q Chen, M Chen, W Lu - Medical physics, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: Collapsed‐cone convolution/superposition (CCCS) dose calculation is the
workhorse for IMRT dose calculation. The authors present a novel algorithm for computing …

A fast three‐dimensional gamma evaluation using a GPU utilizing texture memory for on‐the‐fly interpolations

LCGG Persoon, M Podesta, WJC van Elmpt… - Medical …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: A widely accepted method to quantify differences in dose distributions is the
gamma (γ) evaluation. Currently, almost all γ implementations utilize the central processing …

A GPU-based finite-size pencil beam algorithm with 3D-density correction for radiotherapy dose calculation

X Gu, U Jelen, J Li, X Jia, SB Jiang - Physics in Medicine & …, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
Targeting at the development of an accurate and efficient dose calculation engine for online
adaptive radiotherapy, we have implemented a finite-size pencil beam (FSPB) algorithm …

Sub‐second high dose rate brachytherapy Monte Carlo dose calculations with bGPUMCD

S Hissoiny, M D'Amours, B Ozell, P Després… - Medical …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: To establish the accuracy and speed of bGPUMCD, a GPU‐oriented Monte Carlo
code used for high dose rate brachytherapy dose calculations. The first objective is to …