Distributed Monte Carlo simulation of light transportation in tissue

Page, Andrew J. , Coyle, Shirley, Keane, Thomas M. , Naughton, Thomas J. , Markham, Charles and Ward, Tomás (2006) Distributed Monte Carlo simulation of light transportation in tissue. In: Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, 2006. IPDPS 2006. 20th International. IEEE Computer Society. ISBN 1424400546

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Abstract

A distributed Monte Carlo simulation which models the propagation of light through tissue has been developed. It allows for improved calibration of medical imaging devices for investigating tissue oxygenation in the white matter of the cerebral cortex. The application can distribute the simulation over an unbounded number of processors in parallel. We have found that this application is highly parallelisable resulting in up to 91% efficiency at 60 processors running on a homogeneous Java distributed system. A distributed system with 150 heterogeneous processors was used to simulate the paths of photons in a brain tissue model. We found that the source illumination footprint has an effect on the distribution of photons in the head and that lasers do produce a small beam in a highly scattering medium. This application will help researchers to improve the accuracy of their experiments

Item Type:	Book Section
Subjects:	Q Science > QA Mathematics > Electronic computers. Computer science T Technology > T Technology (General) > Information Technology > Electronic computers. Computer science
Divisions:	School of Computing > Staff Research and Publications
Depositing User:	Caoimhe Ní Mhaicín
Date Deposited:	24 Mar 2014 16:23
Last Modified:	24 Mar 2014 16:24
URI:	https://norma.ncirl.ie/id/eprint/1076

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