X-ray Reconstruction

thyGraphics X-ray Reconstruction is an application and library for the reconstruction of 3D volumes from 2D X-ray projections.

The software runs on Windows and Linux either with multi-threading C++ on CPUs or with OpenCL on CPUs and GPUs from various manufacturers, for example NVIDIA and AMD. Thereby, also multiple graphics devices (Multi-GPU) and 3D volumes larger than the graphics device memory are supported. The implementation contains analytic reconstruction methods for circular trajectories, such as Feldkamp-Davis-Kress [1] as filtered back projection, and iterative reconstruction methods for arbitrary and free trajectories, such as the algebraic reconstruction technique [2-5].

Please contact alexander.jung@thygraphics.com for a demo version or price and license information.

References

[1] L. A. Feldkamp, L. C. Davis, J. W. Kress, “Practical cone-beam algorithm”, Journal of the Optical Society of America A, vol. 1, no. 6. Optica Publishing Group, p. 612, Jun. 01, 1984. doi: 10.1364/josaa.1.000612.
[2] R. Gordon, R. Bender, G. T. Herman, “Algebraic Reconstruction Techniques (ART) for Three-dimensional Electron Microscopy and X- ray Photography”, Journal of Theoretical Biology, 29, 1970, pp. 471-481
[3] P. Gilbert, “Iterative Methods for the Three-dimensional Reconstruction of an Object from Projections”, Journal of Theoretical Biology, 36, 1972, pp. 105-117
[4] A. H. Andersen, A. C. Kak, “Simultaneous Algebraic Reconstruction Technique (SART): A superior implementation of the ART algorithm”, Ultrasonic Imaging, 6, 1984, pp. 81-94
[5] G. Wang, M. Jiang, “Ordered-subset simultaneous algebraic reconstruction techniques (OS-SART)”, Journal of X-Ray Science and Technology: Clinical Applications of Diagnosis and Therapeutics, vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 169–177, Aug. 2004, doi: 10.3233/xst-2004-00110.