GPU computing in medical physics: A review

G Pratx, L Xing - 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 …

Deformable registration for dose accumulation

IJ Chetty, M Rosu-Bubulac - Seminars in radiation oncology, 2019 - Elsevier
As deformable image registration makes its way into the clinical routine, the summation of
doses from fractionated treatment regimens to evaluate cumulative doses to targets and …

The imaging of failure in structural materials by synchrotron radiation X-ray microtomography

SC Wu, TQ Xiao, PJ Withers - Engineering Fracture Mechanics, 2017 - Elsevier
The initiation and propagation of short cracks are critical to the detailed understanding of the
failure mechanisms of engineering materials and structures. Therefore, for a safety critical …

Evaluation of registration methods on thoracic CT: the EMPIRE10 challenge

K Murphy, B Van Ginneken… - IEEE transactions on …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
<? Pub Dtl=""?> EMPIRE10 (Evaluation of Methods for Pulmonary Image REgistration 2010)
is a public platform for fair and meaningful comparison of registration algorithms which are …

Low-dose CT reconstruction via edge-preserving total variation regularization

Z Tian, X Jia, K Yuan, T Pan… - Physics in Medicine & …, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
High radiation dose in computed tomography (CT) scans increases the lifetime risk of cancer
and has become a major clinical concern. Recently, iterative reconstruction algorithms with …

Comparative evaluation of registration algorithms in different brain databases with varying difficulty: results and insights

Y Ou, H Akbari, M Bilello, X Da… - IEEE transactions on …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Evaluating various algorithms for the inter-subject registration of brain magnetic resonance
images (MRI) is a necessary topic receiving growing attention. Existing studies evaluated …

GPU‐based fast cone beam CT reconstruction from undersampled and noisy projection data via total variation

X Jia, Y Lou, R Li, WY Song, SB Jiang - Medical physics, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: Cone‐beam CT (CBCT) plays an important role in image guided radiation therapy
(IGRT). However, the large radiation dose from serial CBCT scans in most IGRT procedures …

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 iterative cone-beam CT reconstruction using tight frame regularization

X Jia, B Dong, Y Lou, SB Jiang - Physics in Medicine & Biology, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
The x-ray imaging dose from serial cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) scans raises
a clinical concern in most image-guided radiation therapy procedures. It is the goal of this …

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 …