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VT GPGPU Use Case Physics in Medical Imaging
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Scientific Discipline
Physics in Medical Imaging
Institute or Community
- Corpuscular Physics Institute of Valencia, Spain
Keywords
- NVIDIA Tesla C2070
Description
Here at IFIC (Corpuscular Physics Institute) located in Valencia, the "Physics in Medical Imaging" research group is working on PET medical image reconstruction. They have implemented the reconstruction algorithm using GPU technology. They use an NVIDIA Tesla C2070, this GPU contains 448 cores and 6 Gbytes of RAM memory. They also use a scanner to get the simulations. The reconstruction time achieved on a GPU was 4.3 times faster than using a CPU and 2.5 times faster than a CPU-multi-core parallel implementation using eight cores (MPI).