Using OpenCL to Enable Software-like Development of an FPGA-Accelerated Biophotonic Cancer Treatment Simulator
Tanner Young‐Schultz, Lothar Lilge, Stephen D. Brown, Vaughn Betz
Abstract
The simulation of light propagation through tissues is important for medical applications, such as photodynamic therapy (PDT) for cancer treatment. To optimize PDT an inverse problem, which works backwards from a desired distribution of light to the parameters that caused it, must be solved. These problems have no closed-form solution and therefore must be solved numerically using an iterative method. This involves running many forward light propagation simulations which is time-consuming and computationally intensive.
Topics & Concepts
Computer scienceField-programmable gate arraySoftwareSimulationPhotodynamic therapyComputational scienceInverseIterative methodParallel computingAlgorithmEmbedded systemOperating systemMathematicsOrganic chemistryGeometryChemistryOptical Imaging and Spectroscopy TechniquesAdvanced Radiotherapy TechniquesPhotodynamic Therapy Research Studies