Pushing the limits for medical image reconstruction on recent standard multicore processors

International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 162-177

  Treibig, Jan ^a   Hager, Georg ^a   Hofmann, Hannes G ^b   Hornegger, Joachim ^b   Wellein, Gerhard ^a  

^a Erlangen Regional Computing Center   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

medical imaging; performance analysis; performance optimization; SandyBridge (AVX); SIMD

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL BOTTLENECKS; HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMPUTING; MEDICAL IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MEDICAL IMAGING ALGORITHMS; PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS; PERFORMANCE OPTIMIZATIONS; SANDYBRIDGE (AVX); SIMD;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; HARDWARE; MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING; MEDICAL IMAGING; PROGRAM PROCESSORS;

OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 84877281508     PISSN: 10943420     EISSN: 17412846     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1094342012442424     Document Type: Article

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