Title :
A distributed architecture for medical instrumentation: an electric current computed tomograph
Author :
Goble, John C. ; Gallagher, Tim D.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Math., Rensselaer Polytech. Inst., Troy, NY, USA
Abstract :
Advances in electric-current computed tomography (ECCT) have resulted in reconstruction algorithms that far exceed the capabilities of the minicomputer-based architectures historically used in medical imaging devices. Further, computers optimized for reconstruction and software development tasks are not well suited to the real-time hardware control required in ECCT. The authors report their efforts to overcome these conflicting computational requirements through the use of a distributed medical-instrument architecture.<>
Keywords :
bioelectric phenomena; biomedical equipment; computerised picture processing; computerised tomography; electric current; medical diagnostic computing; ECCT; distributed architecture; electric current computed tomograph; medical imaging devices; medical instrumentation; reconstruction algorithms;
Conference_Titel :
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 1988. Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE
Conference_Location :
New Orleans, LA, USA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-0785-2
DOI :
10.1109/IEMBS.1988.94519
