Journal of Innovative Optical Health Sciences, Volume. 5, Issue 2, 1250004(2012)

GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNIT CLUSTER ACCELERATED MONTE CARLO SIMULATION OF PHOTON TRANSPORT IN MULTI-LAYERED TISSUES

CHAO JIANG1...2, HENG HE1,2, PENGCHENG LI1,2,*, and QINGMING LUO12 |Show fewer author(s)
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  • 1Britton Chance Center for Biomedical Photonics Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics Huazhong University of Science and Technology Wuhan 430074, China
  • 2Key Laboratory of Biomedical Photonics of Ministry of Education Huazhong University of Science and Technology Wuhan 430074, China
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    CHAO JIANG, HENG HE, PENGCHENG LI, QINGMING LUO. GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNIT CLUSTER ACCELERATED MONTE CARLO SIMULATION OF PHOTON TRANSPORT IN MULTI-LAYERED TISSUES[J]. Journal of Innovative Optical Health Sciences, 2012, 5(2): 1250004

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    Received: Dec. 18, 2011

    Accepted: --

    Published Online: Jan. 10, 2019

    The Author Email: LI PENGCHENG (pengchengli@mail.hust.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.1142/s1793545812500046

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