We recently built an analytical source model for GPU-based MC dose engine. In this paper, we present a sampling strategy to efficiently utilize this source model in GPU-based dose calculation. Our source model was based on a concept of phase-space-ri
ng (PSR). This ring structure makes it effective to account for beam rotational symmetry, but not suitable for dose calculations due to rectangular jaw settings. Hence, we first convert PSR source model to its phase-space let (PSL) representation. Then in dose calculation, different types of sub-sources were separately sampled. Source sampling and particle transport were iterated. So that the particles being sampled and transported simultaneously are of same type and close in energy to alleviate GPU thread divergence. We also present an automatic commissioning approach to adjust the model for a good representation of a clinical linear accelerator . Weighting factors were introduced to adjust relative weights of PSRs, determined by solving a quadratic minimization problem with a non-negativity constraint. We tested the efficiency gain of our model over a previous source model using PSL files. The efficiency was improved by 1.70 ~ 4.41, due to the avoidance of long data reading and transferring. The commissioning problem can be solved in ~20 sec. Its efficacy was tested by comparing the doses computed using the commissioned model and the uncommissioned one, with measurements in different open fields in a water phantom under a clinical Varian Truebeam 6MV beam. For the depth dose curves, the average distance-to-agreement was improved from 0.04~0.28 cm to 0.04~0.12 cm for build-up region and the root-mean-square (RMS) dose difference after build-up region was reduced from 0.32%~0.67% to 0.21%~0.48%. For lateral dose profiles, RMS difference was reduced from 0.31%~2.0% to 0.06%~0.78% at inner beam and from 0.20%~1.25% to 0.10%~0.51% at outer beam.
Monte Carlo (MC) simulation is considered as the most accurate method for radiation dose calculations. Accuracy of a source model for a linear accelerator is critical for the overall dose calculation accuracy. In this paper, we presented an analytica
l source model that we recently developed for GPU-based MC dose calculations. A key concept called phase-space-ring (PSR) was proposed. It contained a group of particles that are of the same type and close in energy and radial distance to the center of the phase-space plane. The model parameterized probability densities of particle location, direction and energy for each primary photon PSR, scattered photon PSR and electron PSR. For a primary photon PSRs, the particle direction is assumed to be from the beam spot. A finite spot size is modeled with a 2D Gaussian distribution. For a scattered photon PSR, multiple Gaussian components were used to model the particle direction. The direction distribution of an electron PSRs was also modeled as a 2D Gaussian distribution with a large standard deviation. We also developed a method to analyze a phase-space file and derive corresponding model parameters. To test the accuracy of our linac source model, dose distributions of different open fields in a water phantom were calculated using our source model and compared to those directly calculated using the reference phase-space file. The average distance-to-agreement (DTA) was within 1 mm for the depth dose in the build-up region and beam penumbra regions. The root-mean-square (RMS) dose difference was within 1.1% for dose profiles at inner and outer beam regions. The maximal relative difference of output factors was within 0.5%. Good agreements were also found in an IMRT prostate patient case and an IMRT head-and-neck case. These results demonstrated the efficacy of our source model in terms of accurately representing a reference phase-space file.
The purpose of the Switching Detection Challenge in the 2013 WSCD workshop was to predict users search engine swithcing actions given records about search sessions and logs.Our solution adopted the powerful prediction model Adpredictor and utilized t
he method of feature engineering. We successfully applied the click through rate (CTR) prediction model Adpredicitor into our solution framework, and then the discovery of effective features and the multiple classification of different switching type make our model outperforms many competitors. We achieved an AUC score of 0.84255 on the private leaderboard and ranked the 5th among all the competitors in the competition.
