Accelerating reconstruction of reference digital tomosynthesis using graphics hardware

Medical Physics

Volumn 34, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 3768-3776

  Yan, Hui ^a   Ren, Lei ^a   Godfrey, Devon J ^a   Yin, Fang Fang ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Digital tomosynthesis; Digitally reconstructed radiography; Graphics processing unit; Image guided radiation therapy

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER GRAPHICS EQUIPMENT; GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNIT; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; RADIOTHERAPY; RENDERING (COMPUTER GRAPHICS);

DIGITAL TOMOSYNTHESIS; DIGITALLY RECONSTRUCTED RADIOGRAPHS; FILTERED BACKPROJECTION ALGORITHM; HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE; IMAGE-GUIDED RADIATION THERAPY; RAY CASTING ALGORITHM; RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHMS; RECONSTRUCTION EFFICIENCY;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DIGITAL TOMOSYNTHESIS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; X RAY FILM;

EID: 34748903429     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2779945     Document Type: Article

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