• DocumentCode
    2110351
  • Title

    Almost instantaneous Monte Carlo calculation of optical coherence tomography signal using graphic processing unit

  • Author

    Kalra, Anshul ; Lima, Ivan T. ; Sherif, Sherif S.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., North Dakota State Univ., Fargo, ND, USA
  • fYear
    2013
  • fDate
    8-12 Sept. 2013
  • Firstpage
    12
  • Lastpage
    13
  • Abstract
    An almost instantaneous Monte Carlo calculation of optical coherence tomography signal from tissue was implemented using importance sampling and massively parallel computing. Original computation time was reduced from more than 6 days to 9 seconds.
  • Keywords
    bio-optics; biological tissues; biomedical optical imaging; graphics processing units; importance sampling; medical computing; optical tomography; parallel algorithms; graphic processing unit; importance sampling; instantaneous Monte Carlo calculation; massively parallel computing; optical coherence tomography; Coherence; Computational modeling; Graphics processing units; Monte Carlo methods; Photonics; Reflectivity; Tomography;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Photonics Conference (IPC), 2013 IEEE
  • Conference_Location
    Bellevue, WA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4577-1506-8
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/IPCon.2013.6656341
  • Filename
    6656341