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

Download or read book Evaluation of State-of-the-Art Hardware Architectures for Fast Cone-Beam CT Reconstruction written by Holger Scherl and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-07-29 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.