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 …

Fast Monte Carlo dose calculation in proton therapy

J Holmes, H Feng, L Zhang, MK Fix… - Physics in Medicine & …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
This article examines the critical role of fast Monte Carlo (MC) dose calculations in
advancing proton therapy techniques, particularly in the context of increasing treatment …

GPU-based fast Monte Carlo dose calculation for proton therapy

X Jia, J Schümann, H Paganetti… - Physics in Medicine & …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
Accurate radiation dose calculation is essential for successful proton radiotherapy. Monte
Carlo (MC) simulation is considered to be the most accurate method. However, the long …

GPU-based fast Monte Carlo simulation for radiotherapy dose calculation

X Jia, X Gu, YJ Graves, M Folkerts… - Physics in Medicine & …, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
Monte Carlo (MC) simulation is commonly considered to be the most accurate dose
calculation method in radiotherapy. However, its efficiency still requires improvement for …

A fast GPU‐based Monte Carlo simulation of proton transport with detailed modeling of nonelastic interactions

H Wan Chan Tseung, J Ma, C Beltran - Medical physics, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: Very fast Monte Carlo (MC) simulations of proton transport have been
implemented recently on graphics processing units (GPUs). However, these MCs usually …

A general-purpose Monte Carlo particle transport code based on inverse transform sampling for radiotherapy dose calculation

Y Liang, W Muhammad, GR Hart, BJ Nartowt… - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract The Monte Carlo (MC) method is widely used to solve various problems in
radiotherapy. There has been an impetus to accelerate MC simulation on GPUs whereas …

Geant4-based Monte Carlo simulations on GPU for medical applications

J Bert, H Perez-Ponce, Z El Bitar, S Jan… - Physics in Medicine …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
Monte Carlo simulation (MCS) plays a key role in medical applications, especially for
emission tomography and radiotherapy. However MCS is also associated with long …

A GPU‐accelerated Monte Carlo dose calculation platform and its application toward validating an MRI‐guided radiation therapy beam model

Y Wang, TR Mazur, O Green, Y Hu, H Li… - Medical …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: The clinical commissioning of IMRT subject to a magnetic field is challenging. The
purpose of this work is to develop a GPU‐accelerated Monte Carlo dose calculation platform …

Sub‐second photon dose prediction via transformer neural networks

O Pastor‐Serrano, P Dong, C Huang, L **ng… - Medical …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Background Fast dose calculation is critical for online and real‐time adaptive therapy
workflows. While modern physics‐based dose algorithms must compromise accuracy to …

Fast CPU-based Monte Carlo simulation for radiotherapy dose calculation

P Ziegenhein, S Pirner, CP Kamerling… - Physics in Medicine & …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
Monte-Carlo (MC) simulations are considered to be the most accurate method for calculating
dose distributions in radiotherapy. Its clinical application, however, still is limited by the long …