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Area of Science:

  • Medical Physics
  • Radiotherapy
  • Computational Science

Background:

  • Monte Carlo (MC) simulation is the most accurate method for radiotherapy dose calculation but is computationally intensive.
  • Existing MC methods require significant improvements in efficiency for routine clinical use.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop a graphics processing unit (GPU)-based MC dose calculation package, gDPM v2.0, to enhance computational efficiency.
  • To maintain the accuracy of the original Dose Planning Method (DPM) code while leveraging GPU parallel processing.

Main Methods:

  • Developed gDPM v2.0 utilizing GPU parallel computation for high efficiency.
  • Implemented a simulation scheme separating photon and electron transport to mitigate thread divergence.
  • Integrated a high-performance random number generator and hardware linear interpolation.

Main Results:

  • gDPM v2.0 demonstrated high efficiency with speed-up factors of 69.1–87.2 compared to CPU.
  • Achieved average relative uncertainties less than 1% in dose calculations for phantoms and patient cases.
  • No statistically significant dose difference between CPU and GPU results in over 96% of the high dose region.

Conclusions:

  • gDPM v2.0 offers a significant speed improvement for MC dose calculations in radiotherapy.
  • The package maintains high accuracy, comparable to traditional CPU-based methods.
  • Enables rapid dose calculation for complex Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT) and Volumetric Modulated Arc Therapy (VMAT) plans.