Mesh-based Monte Carlo Change Log

MMC 0.9.0 (Banana Pudding) stable release, Qianqian Fang <fangq@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu>

2011/12/19 final release of 0.9.0
2011/12/19 fix a critical bug in the Havel ray-tracer, all SSE4 binaries are affected
2011/12/15 make nphoton unsigned int, maximum photon number is 2^32-1
2011/11/02 print unit and line number during error handling
2011/11/01 accept JSON-formatted input files
2011/10/14 Stefan Carp contributed a patch and validation package for DCS simulations
2011/10/12 fix a bug in writing mch file under Windows
2011/08/24 fix an SFMT bug when initializing RNG seeds in multiple parallel threads

MMC 0.8.0 (Snow Cone) stable release, Qianqian Fang <fangq@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu>

2011/06/17 final release of 0.8.0
2011/04/23 sync private dev branch to trunk, publish v0.8.pre in the SVN
2011/04/19 the second paper regarding MMC published on Biomed. Opt. Exp. 2(5):1258–1264
2011/03/17 fix a critical bug in sphdiffusionslab.m
2011/02/25 use atomic for weight accumulation and double precision weight array
2011/02/20 can output fluence and energy deposit with the -O option
2011/02/18 supported recording photon partial path lengths
2011/02/17 supported specular reflection, match results from other simulators
2011/02/11 basic support of source types, set seed from command line
2011/01/12 select ray-tracing method from command line
2011/01/11 added sse math support, gain about 10% speed-up
2011/01/11 simplified Plucker method with initial barycentric coordinates
2011/01/09 used initial barycentric coordinates for Havel/Plucker methods
2011/01/05 added branchless Badouel with SSE, improves speed by 13%
2010/12/21 added support for Badouel's method
2010/12/20 merged with mmc 0.4.0 public svn
2010/11/17 Havel's SSE4 ray-tracing algorithm worked
2010/11/14 branch mmc source code for SSE implementation

MMC 0.4.0 (Pecan Pie) stable release, Qianqian Fang <fangq@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu>

2010/12/14 tested on Windows using MinGW 20101030 with gcc 4.5 and LibGW32C, add documentation
2010/12/13 fixed negative time difference by promoting time counter from int to long
2010/12/13 fixed diminishing absorption fraction by using a double accumulator
2010/12/12 added initial support for SFMT RNG, speed and accuracy need further optimization
2010/12/11 included RNG C units in the main code to enable static in-lining
2010/12/04 initial doxygen support for automatic documentation
2010/12/04 support llvm-gcc, icc and tcc via "make target CC=compiler"
2010/12/03 speed up gcc-compiled binary by 2x with fast exponential
2010/11/30 fix normalization using the correct time unit
2010/08/29 initial Windows support using MinGW and Libgw32c

MMC 0.2 (Cheesecake) legacy release, Qianqian Fang <fangq@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu>

2010/08/29 first public release of MMC - v0.2
2010/08/28 update examples to use iso2mesh 1.0 and MCX 0.4.9 options, remove unused input file format
2010/07/25 release Collins adult brain atlas FEM mesh version 1
2010/07/25 add help text for all matlab/octave functions, release Sphere-Diffusion toolbox v1
2010/07/16 add README files for all examples
2010/07/15 paper published http://www.opticsinfobase.org/boe/abstract.cfm?uri=boe-1-1-165
2010/07/15 update license to GPL v3, mmc is officially open-source
2010/07/04 paper accepeted, update website at http://mcx.sf.net/mmc/
2010/06/23 used meaningful strings as debug flags, added "P" flag for progress bar
2010/06/23 made it possible to model transparent medium
2010/06/21 Russian Roulette to terminate photon
2010/06/20 added boundary reflection at internal or external surfaces
2010/06/07 paper submitted, wait ... wait ... wait ...
2010/06/04 finished paper, added timing unit from mcxcl project, added MMCDEBUG macro
2010/06/03 generated complex mesh from a brain atlas, run simulation and make figures
2010/05/30 announced sphere-diffusion toolbox, tested for Windows, compatible with Octave
2010/05/27 fixed a regression (once fixed in rev161), results are good, regenerated figures
2010/05/26 added scripts for analytical solutions for sphere in infinite-slab geometry
2010/05/25 added scripts for analytical solutions for sphere in semi-infinite medium
2010/05/23 used simple fluence addition approach by default, add MINSTEP_ADDITION macro
2010/05/22 reduced roundoff-error by explicit counting energy loss
2010/05/20 added README document
2010/05/20 added functions to compute the analytical solution of a sphere inside infinite medium
2010/05/19 used elem-volume, update tests, twig parameters
2010/05/19 used MCX approach for fluence accumulation, debugged normalization, tested with benchmarks
2010/05/13 updated POSIX MT RNG to the 48bit version (drand48_r)
2010/05/10 added POSIX MT and logistic RNGs, use MCX interface, improved OpenMP efficiency
2010/05/09 debugged meshtest case, flexible mesh generation using improved iso2mesh toolbox
2010/05/07 isolated photon simulation commands into a function
2010/05/07 created sortmesh.m in iso2mesh to increase memory consistency and reduce cache miss
2010/05/06 added meshreorient.m in iso2mesh to ensure the correct tetrahedron node orientation
2010/05/05 added validation and mesh test cases
2010/05/04 added matlab utilities for mesh generation and result processing
2010/05/01 fluence normalization and SSE4 support
2010/04/22 added support for time-resolved imaging, use node voronoi-volume to normalize
2010/04/21 major code cleaning up, bug fixes for scattering handling
2010/04/18 update weight-recording scheme, only save the absorbed energy, need revisit
2010/01/01 used gprof to optimize,add debuglevel,add weight middle pt at pin and pout
2009/12/30 added examples: sphere-box, port mcx_utils from MCX (mcx.sf.net)
2009/12/30 supported scattering based on mus, and accumulate packet weight
2009/12/29 initial upload to SVN
2009/12/28 completed mesh classes, tested with mouse-head-CT dataset
2009/08/07 ray-tracing of randomly scattered particles and added Makefile
2009/07/31 initial version supporting Plucker-coordinate-based ray-tracing