Acceleware is bringing innovation to the imaging community by accelerating image reconstruction with Acceleware’s standalone AxRecon™ ClusterInABox™ solution. AxRecon ClusterInABox accelerates image reconstruction capability through software in cone beam computed tomography. Acceleware’s solutions dramatically increase the speed of the sophisticated computations required by the technology to recreate complex diagnostic images.
What is Image Reconstruction?
Image reconstruction is a way to generate three dimensional images from a series of X-ray projections.
AxRecon
Acceleware’s AxRecon solution accelerates image reconstruction for micro-CT scanning with the processing power of GPUs (graphics processing units).
Acceleware's AxRecon solution is composed of Acceleware's ClusterInABox™ and HP's 9400 Workstation, and the AxRecon Batch Manager. The AxRecon Batch Manager is a simple GUI (graphical user interface) that allows users to specify and order scans to be reconstructed and prioritized in real-time.
AxRecon speeds up to 12,000 megabackprojections/second, works with your current workflow, and enables you to specify the destination of reconstructive data with a recommended reconstruction matrix size of 1200x1200x1200.
Today's Challenge
With the advances in imaging technology large pharmaceutical companies, biotechnology, and academics are turning to new techniques to obtain valuable data. Computed tomography has developed dramatically over the last few years enabling scientists to perform new experiments and obtain more detailed data. One of the major setbacks that remain is the ability to reconstruct data in a timely manner. This can produce time lags of days or months to obtain reconstructed datasets of complete studies.
Features & Benefits
Feature:
Supercomputer in a deskside form factor
Benefit:
Flexibility of having a supercomputer on demand - no need to schedule the use of a cluster
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Organize your job batch
Benefit:
Manage your reconstruction queue and get your priority jobs completed first
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Increase compute density and power savings
Benefit:
AxRecon is a desktop solution with the power of a cluster
Feature:
Significantly faster throughput with no loss of quality
Benefit:
Faster job completion will prevent you from missing important deadlines due to unavoidable backlog
Lateral view micro-CT reconstruction (38μm resolution) of a control murine thoracic ribcage.
Image courtesy of Dr. Jirik, University of Calgary
“In biomedical micro-computed tomography applications, the volume dimensions of our reconstructions have increased dramatically over the past few years. During the same period, scan times have also been reduced; this makes cone-beam CT reconstruction time the bottleneck that limits workflow in some situations. GPU-based reconstruction is a cost-effective solution for this task, and we have found that Acceleware’s AxRecon product can provide 3D reconstructions up to 50 times faster than a single-CPU.”
