An Acceleration Strategy for Generating Cone-Beam CT Images Based on "Multi-core" Systems

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1 Minia University – Faculty of Engineering, Computers and Systems Engineering Dept., Minia, Egypt

2 Minia University – Faculty of Engineering, Computers and Systems Engineering Dept., Minia, Egypt

3 Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport, South Valley Branch, Aswan, Egypt

Abstract

This paper displays a speeding up system for a cone-beam generation. We proposed a strategy to accelerate the Feld Kamp, Davis, and Kress (FDK) calculation based on a tiling process which is a compiler enhancement procedure. The test was the way by which to improve the use of the cache by strategies for loop blocking. Wiping out the cache misses as conceivable as possible is the guideline; reason/motivation behind the loop tiling. The method is represented and indicated by which method can be used as part of the recreation code, and in case of recognizing the reproduction output on the CPU "Multicore" condition; a specific model is also used. Exploratory results show that the intended Strategy achieves estimated 8.98 throughput per second (PPS) for reconstructing 〖512〗^3-voxel volume from 360 〖512〗^2 Pixel projections. This execution undertakes 3.37 speedup and 8.9 throughputs over than naive CPU based strategy that represents the infrastructure for parallelization code. Also, error measures results show that the proposed method did not affect the image quality reconstructed by the naïve method.

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