Evaluation of State-of-the-Art Hardware Architectures for Fast Cone-Beam CT Reconstruction

Holger Scherl earned his doctoral degree at the Pattern Recognition Lab of the Department of Computer Science, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, under the supervision of Professor Joachim Hornegger. He works at a major healthcare company where he is responsible for the research and development of a hardware-accelerated software-platform for image reconstruction in computed tomography.

• Algorithms for Cone-Beam Image Reconstruction, Design and Implementation of a General Reconstruction Framework, Cell Broadband Engine Architecture, Standard Multi-Core Processors, Graphics Accelerator Boards, FPGA-Based Hardware, Performance Optimization of Selected Feldkamp Alternatives