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
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