Evaluation of State-of-the-Art Hardware Architectures for Fast Cone-Beam CT Reconstruction

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvii

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2. Introduction

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   Pages 1-8

3. Algorithms for Cone-Beam Image Reconstruction

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   Pages 9-35

4. Design and Implementation of a General Reconstruction Framework

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   Pages 37-51

5. Cell Broadband Engine Architecture

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   Pages 53-69

6. Standard Multi-Core Processors

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   Pages 71-75

7. Graphics Accelerator Boards

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   Pages 77-88

8. FPGA-Based Hardware

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   Pages 89-96

9. Performance Optimization of Selected Feldkamp Alternatives

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   Pages 97-112

10. Conclusions

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    Pages 113-117

11. Back Matter

    Pages 119-138

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This book considers the field of computed tomography including a review of state-of-the-art reconstruction algorithms and a concise assessment of the most recent hardware architectures.

Holger Scherl introduces the reader to the reconstruction problem in computed tomography and its major scientific challenges that range from computational efficiency to the fulfillment of Tuy's sufficiency condition. The assessed hardware architectures include multi- and many-core systems, cell broadband engine architecture, graphics processing units, and field programmable gate arrays. The author focuses on the interplay between these recent hardware platforms and modern computed tomography reconstruction algorithms.

• Computertomographie
• Hardwarebeschleunigung
• High-performance computing
• Medizinische Bildverarbeitung
• Parallelisierung

Holger Scherl earned his doctoral degree at the Pattern Recognition Lab of the Department of Computer Science, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, under the supervision of Professor Joachim Hornegger. He works at a major healthcare company where he is responsible for the research and development of a hardware-accelerated software-platform for image reconstruction in computed tomography.

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