An FPGA-based computing platform for real-time 3D medical imaging and its application to cone-beam CT reconstruction

Journal of Imaging Science and Technology

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 237-245

  Li, Jianchun ^a   Papachristou, Christos ^a   Shekhar, Raj ^b  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

APPLICATION SPECIFIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS (ASIC); NON-RECURRING ENGINEERING (NRE); WORKSTATION CLUSTERS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 23744481206     PISSN: 10623701     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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