Fast cardiac CT simulation using a graphics processing unit-accelerated Monte Carlo code

The simulation of imaging systems using Monte Carlo x-ray transport codes is a computationally intensive task. Typically, many days of computation are required to simulate a radiographic projection image and, as a consequence, the simulation of the hundreds of projections needed to perform a tomographic reconstruction may require an unaffordable amount of computing time. To speed up x-ray transport simulations, a MC code that can be executed in...