Monte Carlo simulation of X-ray and gamma-ray photon transport on a graphics-processing unit

DOI10.1016/J.CPC.2010.07.001MaRDI QIDQ548934zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors James Tickner

Publication date 30 June 2011

Published in Computer Physics Communications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpc.2010.07.001

zbMATH Keywords

Monte Carloneutral particleradiation transportphotoncompute unified device architecture (CUDA)graphics-processing units (GPUs)

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Waves and radiation in optics and electromagnetic theory (78A40) Monte Carlo methods applied to problems in optics and electromagnetic theory (78M31)

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Uses Software

• CUDA
• MCNP
• XPERT
• EGSnrc

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