RADIATION THERAPY DOSE CALCULATION ENGINE

摘要

As shown in the figure, the RTDC engine is a realizable design that implements the RTDC method for radiation treatment planning. The design makes practical the use of the superior performance and accuracy of a physics-based, Monte Carlo calculation to treatment planning systems used in working, clinical settings. The RTDC engine is based on available technology. It is made possible by exploiting the unique characteristics of the RTDC method. In particular, the engine maximizes the use of read-only, shared memory (18) for parallel, multithreaded compute processes to the limits of available bus architectures. Similarly, the design leverages the nature of the independence of the individual calculations to construct a hierarchical architecture that maximizes use of available resources for computation, storage and communication. Embodiments of the design can be constructed with emerging technology based on commodity computer equipment developed for server applications in areas of network and transaction processing. The architecture can be realized on a multiplicity of processor types and software operating system architectures.