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Veronica Mejia Bustamante
Implementation of Iterative Solvers for the Digital Tomosynthesis Problem in GPUs

Dept of Math & CS
Emory University
400 Dowman Dr
W401
Atlanta
GA 30322
vmejia@emory.edu

Tomosynthesis imaging provides a viable alternative to computed tomography (CT) and has obtained significant interest from the medical community as a means for diagnostic radiology and radiation therapy. In digital tomosynthesis imaging, multiple projections of an object are obtained along a small range of different incident angles in order to reconstruct a 3D representation of the object. In this paper we discuss the implementation details of the polyenergetic digital breast tomosynthesis reconstruction algorithm in a GPU using OpenCL. We describe three different algorithm implementations: a serial implementation, a GPU implementation threaded by functionality of the model, and a GPU fused kernel implementation which is threaded to increase performance, throughput, and GPU utilization in the application. We show that the explicit kernel fusion achieves significant speed-up in the reconstruction process of a clinical size patient data set, from running over 100X faster than the version threaded by functionality to 200X faster than the serial approach.





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