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Topic Name: Compute-intensive applications : The new Cell Accelerator Board
Category: Biomedical
Research persons: Mercury Computer Systems, Inc.Gabi Strasser.
Public Relations Manager Europe.
Mercury Computer Systems
E-mail: gabriele.strasser@mc.com &
Genesis Digital Imaging :
12921 W. Washington Blvd.,Los Angeles,
Location: Mercury computer sys., Chelmsford, MA 01824-2820 & Genesis Digital Imaging, Inc,Los Angeles, CA 90066, United States
Details
The Institute of Medical Physics (Erlangen, Germany)
Mercury Computer Systems (Chelmsford, Mass.)
The Imaging Challenge
Advances in sensor technology in Computed Tomography (CT) have created an increasing number of images per procedure, posing a challenge for processing in a timely manner that is compatible with the hospital workflow. The challenge is to do the fast reconstruction required, while keeping costs reasonable. Due to the lack of computational resources, this can lead to the use of less desirable approximation algorithms instead of more robust approaches available-because the processing power isn't there.
The Solution
The Institute of Medical Physics (IMP) and Mercury Computer Systems have developed a Cell Broadband Engine™ (BE) processor-based solution capable of performing modern CT reconstruction more than 100 times faster than conventional microprocessors. The Cell BE processor, developed by IBM, Toshiba and Sony is a breakthrough architectural design featuring eight synergistic processing elements that provides unmatched performance levels in many computationally intense applications. The Cell BE processor has peak performance in excess of 180 GFLOPS-which equates to 180 billion floating-point operations per second and an amazing 25 GB/s memory bandwidth. Mercury is offering Cell Technology to medical OEMs worldwide via the Cell Acceleration Board (CAB)-a PCI Express accelerator card based on the Cell BE processor-along with algorithms and multicore and multicomputer programming expertise. The level of parallelism along with the vast I/O capabilities permits the Cell BE processor to efficiently implement complex CT reconstruction algorithms with close to real-time performance. The Cell BE processor enables system design in which a radiologist can view images obtained from better algorithms, with higher quality, much sooner than ever before.
The Tools Used
Mercury's Cell Acceleration Board (CAB)
Mercury's MultiCore Plus™ SDK (Software Development Kit)
>Mercury's Trace Analysis Tool and Library (TATL)
The Difference it Made
With the Cell Accelerator Board (CAB), more advanced approaches thought to be too demanding in terms of processing can now enter daily routine. The tremendous processing power of the Cell BE processor enables the use of more accurate iterative reconstruction algorithms designed for the reduction of beam hardening and metal artifacts. Analytical and statistical CT reconstruction algorithms that provide enhanced image quality, while keeping the X-ray exposure of the patient as low as possible, can now be implemented on the Cell BE processor-based platform at affordable cost for medical OEMs
 
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