Open AccessHigh throughput transmission optical projection tomography using low cost graphics processing unit
Author(s) -
Claudio Vinegoni,
Lyuba Fexon,
Paolo Fumene Feruglio,
Misha Pivovarov,
José-Luiz Figueiredo,
Matthias Nahrendorf,
A Pozzo,
Andrea Sbarbati,
Ralph Weissleder
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
optics express
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.394
H-Index - 271
ISSN - 1094-4087
DOI - 10.1364/oe.17.022320
Subject(s) - throughput , graphics processing unit , computer science , graphics , workstation , transmission (telecommunications) , optics , projection (relational algebra) , image processing , central processing unit , computer graphics (images) , computer hardware , computer vision , parallel computing , algorithm , physics , telecommunications , image (mathematics) , wireless , operating system
We implement the use of a graphics processing unit (GPU) in order to achieve real time data processing for high-throughput transmission optical projection tomography imaging. By implementing the GPU we have obtained a 300 fold performance enhancement in comparison to a CPU workstation implementation. This enables to obtain on-the-fly reconstructions enabling for high throughput imaging.