Parallel iterative cone beam CT image reconstruction on a PC cluster

Journal of X-Ray Science and Technology

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 63-72

  Li, Xiang ^a   Ni, Jun ^c,d   Wang, Ge ^a,b  

^a University of Iowa   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c The University of Iowa   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGEBRA; ALGORITHMS; CACHE MEMORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DATA ACQUISITION; DOSIMETRY; ITERATIVE METHODS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; OPTICAL PROJECTORS; PERSONAL COMPUTERS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SCANNING; X RAYS;

FILTERED BACK PROJECTION (FBP); ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION (IR) ALGORITHM; MULTIPLE INSTRUCTION MULTIPLE DATA (MIMD); ORDER SUBSET (OS); SINGLE INSTRUCTION MULTIPLE DATA (SIMD);

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

EID: 22144484181     PISSN: 08953996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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