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 …

Roadmap for precision preclinical x-ray radiation studies

F Verhaegen, KT Butterworth… - Physics in Medicine …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
This Roadmap paper covers the field of precision preclinical x-ray radiation studies in
animal models. It is mostly focused on models for cancer and normal tissue response to …

[图书][B] Monte Carlo techniques in radiation therapy

J Seco, F Verhaegen - 2013 - api.taylorfrancis.com
Monte Carlo simulation techniques made a slow entry in the field of radiotherapy in the late
1970s. Since then they have gained enormous popularity, judging by the number of papers …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] A single neural network for cone-beam computed tomography-based radiotherapy of head-and-neck, lung and breast cancer

M Maspero, AC Houweling, MHF Savenije… - Physics and imaging in …, 2020 - Elsevier
Background and purpose Adaptive radiotherapy based on cone-beam computed
tomography (CBCT) requires high CT number accuracy to ensure accurate dose …

A GPU tool for efficient, accurate, and realistic simulation of cone beam CT projections

X Jia, H Yan, L Cerviño, M Folkerts, SB Jiang - Medical physics, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: Simulation of x‐ray projection images plays an important role in cone beam CT
(CBCT) related research projects, such as the design of reconstruction algorithms or …

Real‐time estimation of patient‐specific dose distributions for medical CT using the deep dose estimation

J Maier, L Klein, E Eulig, S Sawall… - Medical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose With the rising number of computed tomography (CT) examinations and the trend
toward personalized medicine, patient‐specific dose estimates are becoming more and …

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 …

Technical advances in x-ray microbeam radiation therapy

S Bartzsch, S Corde, JC Crosbie, L Day… - Physics in Medicine …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
In the last 25 years microbeam radiation therapy (MRT) has emerged as a promising
alternative to conventional radiation therapy at large, third generation synchrotrons. In MRT …