Fast Implementation of Iterative Reconstruction with Exact Ray-Driven Projector on GPUs

Tsinghua Science and Technology

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 30-35

  Xu, Fang ^a  

^a SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

graphics processing units; image reconstruction; tomography

Indexed keywords

BACKWARD PROJECTION; COMPUTATION PROCESS; CONVERGENCE RATES; CURRENT GENERATION; EXPECTATION MAXIMIZATION; FAST IMPLEMENTATION; GPU IMPLEMENTATION; GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNIT; GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNITS; HIGH QUALITY IMAGES; ITERATIVE ALGORITHM; ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION; OBJECT INFORMATION; ORDERED-SUBSETS; RAY-DRIVEN; SIMULTANEOUS ALGEBRAIC RECONSTRUCTION TECHNIQUE;

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MESH GENERATION; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; REPAIR; TOMOGRAPHY;

ITERATIVE METHODS;

EID: 77449091210     PISSN: 10070214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1007-0214(10)70005-5     Document Type: Article

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