Parallel-beam backprojection: An FPGA implementation optimized for medical imaging

ACM/SIGDA International Symposium on Field Programmable Gate Arrays - FPGA

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 217-226

  Coric, Srdjan ^a   Leeser, Miriam ^a   Miller, Eric ^a   Trepanier, Marc ^a  

^a Northeastern University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DATA TRANSFER; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ATTENUATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; MEDICAL IMAGING; NONDESTRUCTIVE EXAMINATION; PARALLEL ALGORITHMS;

PARALLEL-BEAM BACKPROJECTION;

FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS;

EID: 0036384127     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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