DocumentCode
3330225
Title
Ultrafast multipinhole single photon emission computed tomography iterative reconstruction using CUDA
Author
Alhassen, Fares ; Kim, Sangtaek ; Sayre, George A. ; Bowen, Jason D. ; Gould, Robert ; Seo, Youngho ; Kudrolli, Haris ; Singh, Bipin ; Nagarkar, Vivek V.
Author_Institution
Dept. of Radiol. & Biomed. Imaging, Univ. of California, San Francisco, CA, USA
fYear
2011
fDate
23-29 Oct. 2011
Firstpage
2558
Lastpage
2559
Abstract
We have developed an ultrafast statistical iterative reconstruction method for multipinhole single photon emission computed tomography using high performance graphics processing unit computing and have demonstrated a significant performance improvement in reconstruction using computer-generated and experimental sinogram data.
Keywords
graphics processing units; image reconstruction; iterative methods; medical image processing; parallel architectures; single photon emission computed tomography; CUDA; high performance graphics processing unit; sinogram data; ultrafast multipinhole single photon emission computed tomography; ultrafast statistical iterative reconstruction method; Graphics processing unit; Image reconstruction; Phantoms; GPU; GPU computing; SPECT; iterative reconstruction; pinhole SPECT;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference (NSS/MIC), 2011 IEEE
Conference_Location
Valencia
ISSN
1082-3654
Print_ISBN
978-1-4673-0118-3
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/NSSMIC.2011.6152690
Filename
6152690
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