Evaluation of State-of-the-Art Hardware Architectures for Fast Cone-Beam CT Reconstruction

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.

Holger Scherl earned his doctoral degree at the Pattern Recognition Lab of the Department of Computer Science, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, under the supervision of Professor Joachim Hornegger. He works at a major healthcare company where he is responsible for the research and development of a hardware-accelerated software-platform for image reconstruction in computed tomography.