Tomographic image reconstruction using the cell broadband engine (CBE) general purpose hardware

Michael Knaup; Sven Steckmann; Olivier Bockenbach; Marc Kachelrieß

doi:10.1117/12.716500

28 February 2007 Tomographic image reconstruction using the cell broadband engine (CBE) general purpose hardware

Michael Knaup, Sven Steckmann, Olivier Bockenbach, Marc Kachelrieß

Proceedings Volume 6498, Computational Imaging V; 64980P (2007) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.716500
Event: Electronic Imaging 2007, 2007, San Jose, CA, United States

Abstract

Tomographic image reconstruction, such as the reconstruction of CT projection values, of tomosynthesis data, PET or SPECT events, is computational very demanding. In filtered backprojection as well as in iterative reconstruction schemes, the most time-consuming steps are forward- and backprojection which are often limited by the memory bandwidth. Recently, a novel general purpose architecture optimized for distributed computing became available: the Cell Broadband Engine (CBE). Its eight synergistic processing elements (SPEs) currently allow for a theoretical performance of 192 GFlops (3 GHz, 8 units, 4 floats per vector, 2 instructions, multiply and add, per clock). To maximize image reconstruction speed we modified our parallel-beam and perspective backprojection algorithms which are highly optimized for standard PCs, and optimized the code for the CBE processor.^1-3 In addition, we implemented an optimized perspective forwardprojection on the CBE which allows us to perform statistical image reconstructions like the ordered subset convex (OSC) algorithm.⁴ Performance was measured using simulated data with 512 projections per rotation and 512² detector elements. The data were backprojected into an image of 512³ voxels using our PC-based approaches and the new CBE- based algorithms. Both the PC and the CBE timings were scaled to a 3 GHz clock frequency. On the CBE, we obtain total reconstruction times of 4.04 s for the parallel backprojection, 13.6 s for the perspective backprojection and 192 s for a complete OSC reconstruction, consisting of one initial Feldkamp reconstruction, followed by 4 OSC iterations.

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Michael Knaup, Sven Steckmann, Olivier Bockenbach, and Marc Kachelrieß "Tomographic image reconstruction using the cell broadband engine (CBE) general purpose hardware", Proc. SPIE 6498, Computational Imaging V, 64980P (28 February 2007); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.716500

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