Medical image processing on the GPU–Past, present and future

A Eklund, P Dufort, D Forsberg, SM LaConte - Medical image analysis, 2013 - Elsevier
Graphics processing units (GPUs) are used today in a wide range of applications, mainly
because they can dramatically accelerate parallel computing, are affordable and energy …

GPU computing in medical physics: A review

G Pratx, L **ng - Medical physics, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
The graphics processing unit (GPU) has emerged as a competitive platform for computing
massively parallel problems. Many computing applications in medical physics can be …

GPU-based high-performance computing for radiation therapy

X Jia, P Ziegenhein, SB Jiang - Physics in Medicine & Biology, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
Recent developments in radiotherapy therapy demand high computation powers to solve
challenging problems in a timely fashion in a clinical environment. The graphics processing …

A practical cone-beam CT scatter correction method with optimized Monte Carlo simulations for image-guided radiation therapy

Y Xu, T Bai, H Yan, L Ouyang, A Pompos… - Physics in Medicine …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
Cone-beam CT (CBCT) has become the standard image guidance tool for patient setup in
image-guided radiation therapy. However, due to its large illumination field, scattered …

Arbitrarily large tomography with iterative algorithms on multiple GPUs using the TIGRE toolbox

A Biguri, R Lindroos, R Bryll, H Towsyfyan… - Journal of Parallel and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract 3D tomographic imaging requires the computation of solutions to very large inverse
problems. In many applications, iterative algorithms provide superior results, however …

Recent advances in X-ray cone-beam computed laminography

NS O'Brien, RP Boardman, I Sinclair… - Journal of X-ray …, 2016 - content.iospress.com
X-ray computed tomography is an established volume imaging technique used routinely in
medical diagnosis, industrial non-destructive testing, and a wide range of scientific fields …

Accelerating image reconstruction in three‐dimensional optoacoustic tomography on graphics processing units

K Wang, C Huang, YJ Kao, CY Chou… - Medical …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: Optoacoustic tomography (OAT) is inherently a three‐dimensional (3D) inverse
problem. However, most studies of OAT image reconstruction still employ two‐dimensional …

FPGA as a hardware accelerator for computation intensive maximum likelihood expectation maximization medical image reconstruction algorithm

M Ravi, A Sewa, TG Shashidhar… - IEEE Access, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The major requirements of a good tomographic reconstruction algorithm are a reduction in
radiation dosage, accurate reconstruction, detail enhancement, and rapid reconstruction …

Efficient volume reconstruction for parallel-beam computed laminography by filtered backprojection on multi-core clusters

A Myagotin, A Voropaev, L Helfen… - IEEE transactions on …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Computed laminography (CL) was developed to use X-rays from synchrotron sources for
high-resolution imaging of the internal structure of a flat specimen from a series of 2-D …

Software architecture for multi-bed FDK-based reconstruction in X-ray CT scanners

M Abella, JJ Vaquero, A Sisniega, J Pascau… - Computer methods and …, 2012 - Elsevier
Most small-animal X-ray computed tomography (CT) scanners are based on cone-beam
geometry with a flat-panel detector orbiting in a circular trajectory. Image reconstruction in …