Nguyen, V.-G. and Lee, S.-J. (2016) GPU-accelerated iterative reconstruction from Compton scattered data using a matched pair of conic projector and backprojector. Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, 131. pp. 27-36. ISSN 1692607
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Abstract
Background and Objective: Iterative reconstruction from Compton scattered data is known to be computationally more challenging than that from conventional line-projection based emission data in that the gamma rays that undergo Compton scattering are modeled as conic projections rather than line projections. In conventional tomographic reconstruction, to parallelize the projection and backprojection operations using the graphics processing unit (GPU), approximated methods that use an unmatched pair of ray-tracing forward projector and voxel-driven backprojector have been widely used. In this work, we propose a new GPU-accelerated method for Compton camera reconstruction which is more accurate by using exactly matched pair of projector and backprojector. Methods: To calculate conic forward projection, we first sample the cone surface into conic rays and accumulate the intersecting chord lengths of the conic rays passing through voxels using a fast ray-tracing method (RTM). For conic backprojection, to obtain the true adjoint of the conic forward projection, while retaining the computational efficiency of the GPU, we use a voxel-driven RTM which is essentially the same as the standard RTM used for the conic forward projector. Results: Our simulation results show that, while the new method is about 3 times slower than the approximated method, it is still about 16 times faster than the CPU-based method without any loss of accuracy. Conclusions: The net conclusion is that our proposed method is guaranteed to retain the reconstruction accuracy regardless of the number of iterations by providing a perfectly matched projector-backprojector pair, which makes iterative reconstruction methods for Compton imaging faster and more accurate. © 2016 Elsevier Ireland Ltd.
Item Type: | Article |
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Divisions: | Faculties > Faculty of Information Technology |
Identification Number: | 10.1016/j.cmpb.2016.04.012 |
Uncontrolled Keywords: | Cameras; Computational efficiency; Computer graphics equipment; Cones; Gamma rays; Graphics processing unit; Iterative methods; Program processors; Three dimensional computer graphics; Backprojector; Compton Camera; GPU-accelerated; Iterative reconstruction; Ray-tracing method; Ray tracing; imaging; computer graphics; Monte Carlo method; radiation scattering; scanning electron microscopy; three dimensional imaging; Computer Graphics; Imaging, Three-Dimensional; Microscopy, Electron, Scanning; Monte Carlo Method; Scattering, Radiation |
Additional Information: | Language of original document: English. |
URI: | http://eprints.lqdtu.edu.vn/id/eprint/9826 |