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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 25, 2018
Filed:
Mar. 07, 2016
Purdue Research Foundation, West Lafayette, IN (US);
Junshi Liu, West Lafayette, IN (US);
Swagath Venkataramani, West Lafayette, IN (US);
Singanallur V. Venkatakrishnan, Orinda, CA (US);
Charles A. Bouman, West Lafayette, IN (US);
Anand Raghunathan, West Lafayette, IN (US);
PURDUE RESEARCH FOUNDATION, West Lafayette, IN (US);
Abstract
A tomography system having a central processing unit, a system memory communicatively connected to the central processing unit, and a hardware acceleration unit communicatively connected to the central processing unit and the system memory, the hardware accelerator configured to perform at least a portion of an MBIR process on computer tomography data. The hardware accelerator unit may include one or more voxel evaluation modules which evaluate an updated value of a voxel given a voxel location in a reconstructed volume. By processing voxel data for voxels in a voxel neighborhood, processing time is reduces.