Evaluation of state-of-the-art hardware architectures for fast cone-beam CT reconstruction

Parallel Computing

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 111-124

  Scherl, Holger ^a   Kowarschik, Markus ^a   Hofmann, Hannes G ^b   Keck, Benjamin ^b   Hornegger, Joachim ^b  

^a SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Back projection; Computed tomography; FDK reconstruction; Filtering; Hardware acceleration

Indexed keywords

3D IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; BACK-PROJECTION; CELL BROADBAND ENGINE ARCHITECTURE; CLINICAL APPLICATION; CODE TRANSFORMATION; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER COMPONENTS; CONE-BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONEBEAM CT RECONSTRUCTION; FDK ALGORITHM; GRAPHICS BOARD; HARDWARE ACCELERATION; HARDWARE ARCHITECTURE; HARDWARE PLATFORM; HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMPUTING APPLICATIONS; IMPLEMENTATION COMPLEXITY; MEDICAL DATA SETS; MULTI-CORE PROCESSOR; OPTIMIZED IMPLEMENTATION; TARGET ARCHITECTURES; TIME-CONSUMING PARTS; TWO PROCESSORS;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER HARDWARE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; COSINE TRANSFORMS; FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS (FPGA); FILTRATION; HARDWARE; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; OPTIMIZATION; STANDARDS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TOMOGRAPHY;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84855163095     PISSN: 01678191     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.parco.2011.10.004     Document Type: Article

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