Implementation of a spiral CT backprojection algorithm on the Cell Broadband Engine processor

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6142 III, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Bockenbach, Olivier ^a   Goddard, Iain ^b   Schuberth, Sebastian ^a   Seebass, Martin ^a  

^a Mercury Computer Systems   (Germany)

^b Mercury Computer Systems Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Backprojection; Cell Broadband Engine; Cell processor; Computed Tomography; Reconstruction; Spiral CT

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; PROBLEM SOLVING;

BACKPROJECTION; CELL BROADBAND ENGINE; CELL PROCESSOR; SPIRAL CT;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 33745407740     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.653160     Document Type: Conference Paper

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