Evaluation of State-of-the-Art Hardware Architectures for Fast Cone-Beam CT Reconstruction (Aktuelle Forschung Medizintechnik - Latest Research in Medical Engineering)

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.