Title :
Accelerated biomedical simulations using the FDTD method and the CUDA architecture
Author :
Ireland, David ; Tee, Wei Chern ; Bialkowski, Marek
Author_Institution :
Sch. of ITEE, Univ. of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
Abstract :
This paper presents empirical results of the finite difference time domain algorithm implemented on NVIDIA´s CUDA architecture in order to achieve significant decreases in electromagnetic field simulation time. The proposed strategy is demonstrated with respect to biomedical applications where 10 different anatomical realistic body phantoms are simulated and speed increases quantified.
Keywords :
biomedical electronics; finite difference time-domain analysis; medical image processing; parallel architectures; phantoms; FDTD method; NVIDIA CUDA architecture; accelerated biomedical simulation; anatomical realistic body phantom; biomedical application; electromagnetic field simulation time; finite difference time domain Method; Breast; Computer architecture; Finite difference methods; Graphics processing unit; Phantoms; Throughput; Time domain analysis; Finite difference methods; imaging phantoms; parallel architectures;
Conference_Titel :
Microwave Conference Proceedings (APMC), 2011 Asia-Pacific
Conference_Location :
Melbourne, VIC
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-2034-5
