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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Photonics Conference (IPC), 2013 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Bellevue, WA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1506-8
DOI :
10.1109/IPCon.2013.6656341
