Technical Note: RabbitCT-an open platform for benchmarking 3D cone-beam reconstruction algorithms

Medical Physics

Volumn 36, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 3940-3944

  Rohkohl, C ^a   Keck, B ^a   Hofmann, H G ^a   Hornegger, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

3D reconstruction; Backprojection; Benchmark; High performance computing

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACES (API); BENCHMARKING; C++ (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; MULTITASKING; STATISTICAL TESTS;

3D RECONSTRUCTION; BACK-PROJECTION; CONE BEAM RECONSTRUCTION; CONE-BEAM RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHMS; HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING; PROTOTYPE IMPLEMENTATIONS; RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHMS; THREADING BUILDING BLOCKS;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CONE BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE QUALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BENCHMARKING; DATABASES, FACTUAL; EVALUATION STUDIES AS TOPIC; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INTERNET; RABBITS; SOFTWARE; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 69549126320     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3180956     Document Type: Article

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