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 …

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 …

[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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Patient‐specific radiation dose and cancer risk estimation in CT: Part II. Application to patients

X Li, E Samei, WP Segars, GM Sturgeon… - Medical …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: Current methods for estimating and reporting radiation dose from CT examinations
are largely patient‐generic; the body size and hence dose variation from patient to patient is …