Use the GPU Successfully in Your Radiotherapy Practice With its high processing power, cost-effectiveness, and easy deployment, access, and maintenance, the graphics processing unit (GPU) has increasingly been used to tackle problems in the medical physics field, ranging from computed tomography reconstruction to Monte Carlo radiation transport simulation. Graphics Processing Unit-Based High Performance Computing in Radiation Therapy collects state-of-the-art research on GPU computing and its applications to medical physics problems in radiation therapy. Tackle Problems in Medical Imaging and Radiotherapy The book first offers an introduction to the GPU technology and its current applications in radiotherapy. Most of the remaining chapters discuss a specific application of a GPU in a key radiotherapy problem. These chapters summarize advances and present technical details and insightful discussions on the use of GPU in addressing the problems. The book also examines two real systems developed with GPU as a core component to accomplish important clinical tasks in modern radiotherapy. Translate Research Developments to Clinical Practice Written by a team of international experts in radiation oncology, biomedical imaging, computing, and physics, this book gets clinical and research physicists, graduate students, and other scientists up to date on the latest in GPU computing for radiotherapy. It encourages you to bring this novel technology to routine clinical radiotherapy practice. Content: Front Cover Series In Medical Physics And Biomedical Engineering Dedication Contents Preface Editors Contributors Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Digitally Reconstructed Radiographs Chapter 3 Analytic Cone- Beam CT Reconstructions Chapter 4 Iterative Cone- Beam CT Reconstruction on GPUs Chapter 5 4DCT and 4D Cone- Beam CT Reconstruction Using Temporal Regularizations Chapter 6 Multi- GPU Cone- Beam CT Reconstruction Chapter 7 Tumor Tracking and Real- Time Volumetric Imaging via One Cone- Beam CT Projection Chapter 8 GPU Denoising for Computed Tomography Chapter 9 GPU- Based Unimodal Deformable Image Registration in Radiation TherapyChapter 10 Inter- Modality Deformable Registration Chapter 11 CT- to- Cone- Beam CT Deformable Registration Chapter 12 Reconstruction in Positron Emission Tomography Chapter 13 Implementation of Convolution Superposition Methods on a GPU Chapter 14 Photon and Proton Pencil Beam Dose Calculation Chapter 15 Photon Monte Carlo Dose Calculation Chapter 16 Monte Carlo Dose Calculations for Proton Therapy Chapter 17 Treatment Plan Optimization for Intensity- Modulated Radiation Therapy ( IMRT) Chapter 18 Treatment Plan Optimization for Volumetric- Modulated Arc Therapy ( VMAT)Chapter 19 Non- Voxel- Based Broad Beam Framework Chapter 20 Gamma Index Calculations Chapter 21 SCORE System for Online Adaptive Radiotherapy Chapter 22 TARGET: A GPU- Based Patient- Specific Quality Assurance System for Radiation Therapy Color Insert Back Cover "This book presents a collection of state-of-the-art research on GPU computing and its applications in medical physics problems in radiation therapy. After an overall introduction to GPU technology and its current applications in radiotherapy in Chapter 1, each of Chapters 2 through 20 was selected to present a specific application of GPU in a key radiotherapy problem. These chapters summarize the advancements achieved so far as well as present technical details and insightful discussions regarding the utilization of GPU in these problems. In addition, two chapters toward teh end of the book present two real systems developed with GPU as a core component to achieve important clinical tasks in modern radiotherapy."--Preface, page xi Written by international experts in radiation oncology, biomedical imaging, computing, and physics, this book collects state-of-the-art research on GPU computing and its applications to medical physics problems in radiation therapy.
