Ultrafast and scalable cone-beam CT reconstruction using MapReduce in a cloud computing environment

Medical Physics

Volumn 38, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 6603-6609

  Meng, Bowen ^a,b   Pratx, Guillem ^b   Xing, Lei ^b  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

4DCT; CBCT; cloud computing; FDK; MapReduce

Indexed keywords

CLOUD COMPUTING; FAULT TOLERANCE; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; MEDICAL PROBLEMS; PATIENT MONITORING; PHANTOMS;

4DCT; CBCT; CLOUD COMPUTING ENVIRONMENTS; CONEBEAM CT RECONSTRUCTION; HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION TECHNIQUES; LARGE SCALE COMPUTING PROBLEMS; MAP-REDUCE;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 82755163832     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3660200     Document Type: Article

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