Monte Carlo simulations in emission tomography and GATE: An overview

I Buvat, D Lazaro - Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research …, 2006 - Elsevier
Monte Carlo simulations are nowadays an essential tool in emission tomography (Single-
Photon Emission Computed Tomography—SPECT and Positron Emission Tomography …

Machine intelligence of Pi from geometrical figures with variable parameters using SCILab

A Mandal, S Dutta, S Pramanik - Methodologies and Applications of …, 2021 - igi-global.com
In the present research work, the use of geometrical figures have been made for the
calculation of the value of pi. Instead of circle and square, ellipse and rectangle had been …

Current status and new horizons in Monte Carlo simulation of X-ray CT scanners

H Zaidi, MR Ay - Medical & biological engineering & computing, 2007 - Springer
With the advent of powerful computers and parallel processing including Grid technology,
the use of Monte Carlo (MC) techniques for radiation transport simulation has become the …

Vision 20/20: Automation and advanced computing in clinical radiation oncology

KL Moore, GC Kagadis, TR McNutt… - Medical …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
This Vision 20/20 paper considers what computational advances are likely to be
implemented in clinical radiation oncology in the coming years and how the adoption of …

Medical images simulation, storage, and processing on the european datagrid testbed

J Montagnat, F Bellet, H Benoit-Cattin, V Breton… - Journal of Grid …, 2004 - Springer
Abstract The European 1ST DataGrid project was a pioneer in identifying the medical
imaging field as an application domain that can benefit from Grid technologies. This paper …

Monte Carlo simulation on heterogeneous distributed systems: A computing framework with parallel merging and checkpointing strategies

S Camarasu-Pop, T Glatard, RF Da Silva… - Future Generation …, 2013 - Elsevier
This paper introduces an end-to-end framework for efficient computing and merging of
Monte Carlo simulations on heterogeneous distributed systems. Simulations are parallelized …

Distribution of random streams for simulation practitioners

DRC Hill, C Mazel… - Concurrency and …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
There is an increasing interest in the distribution of parallel random number streams in the
high‐performance computing community particularly, with the manycore shift. Even if we …

Dynamic partitioning of GATE Monte-Carlo simulations on EGEE

S Camarasu-Pop, T Glatard, JT Mościcki… - Journal of Grid …, 2010 - Springer
The EGEE Grid offers the necessary infrastructure and resources for reducing the running
time of particle tracking Monte-Carlo applications like GATE. However, efforts are required to …

Assessment study for multi-barrier system used in radioactive borate waste isolation based on Monte Carlo simulations

TA Bayoumi, SM Reda, HM Saleh - Applied Radiation and Isotopes, 2012 - Elsevier
Radioactive waste generated from the nuclear applications should be properly isolated by a
suitable containment system such as, multi-barrier container. The present study aims to …

Race conditions and data partitioning: risks posed by common errors to reproducible parallel simulations

J Nutaro, O Ozmen - Simulation, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
When parallel algorithms for simulation were introduced in the 1970s, their development
and use interested only experts in parallel computation. This circumstance changed as multi …