Towards real-time photon Monte Carlo dose calculation in the cloud

• Published in: Physics in medicine & biology Vol. 62; no. 11; pp. 4375 - 4389
• Main Authors: Ziegenhein, Peter, Kozin, Igor N, Kamerling, Cornelis Ph, Oelfke, Uwe
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England IOP Publishing 07.06.2017
• Subjects: Algorithms; cloud computing; HPC; Humans; Liver Neoplasms - radiotherapy; Male; Monte Carlo; Monte Carlo Method; MPI; Photons; Prostatic Neoplasms - radiotherapy; Radiotherapy Dosage; Radiotherapy Planning, Computer-Assisted - methods; real-time; Software

Near real-time application of Monte Carlo (MC) dose calculation in clinic and research is hindered by the long computational runtimes of established software. Currently, fast MC software solutions are available utilising accelerators such as graphical processing units (GPUs) or clusters based on cen...