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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference (NSS/MIC), 2011 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Valencia
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-0118-3
DOI :
10.1109/NSSMIC.2011.6152690
