Evaluation of the Bresenham algorithm for image reconstruction with ultrasound computer tomography

Norbert Spieß; Michael Zapf; Nicole V. Ruiter

doi:10.1117/12.878255

25 March 2011 Evaluation of the Bresenham algorithm for image reconstruction with ultrasound computer tomography

Norbert Spieß, Michael Zapf, Nicole V. Ruiter

Proceedings Volume 7968, Medical Imaging 2011: Ultrasonic Imaging, Tomography, and Therapy; 796803 (2011) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.878255
Event: SPIE Medical Imaging, 2011, Lake Buena Vista (Orlando), Florida, United States

Abstract

At Karlsruhe Institute of Technology a 3D Ultrasound Computer Tomography (USCT) system is under development for early breast cancer detection. With 3.5 million of acquired raw data and up to one billion voxels for one image, the reconstruction of breast volumes may last for weeks in highest possible resolution. The currently applied backprojection algorithm, based on the synthetic aperture focusing technique (SAFT), offers only limited potential for further decrease of the reconstruction time. An alternative reconstruction method could apply signal detected data and rasterizes the backprojected ellipsoids directly. A well-known rasterization algorithm is the Bresenham algorithm, which was originally designed to rasterize lines. In this work an existing Bresenham concept to rasterize circles is extended to comply with the requirements of image reconstruction in USCT: the circle rasterization was adapted to rasterize spheres and extended to floating point parameterization. The evaluation of the algorithm showed that the quality of the rasterization is comparable to the original algorithm. The achieved performance of the circle and sphere rasterization algorithm was 12MVoxel/s and 3.5MVoxel/s. When taking the performance increase due to the reduced A-Scan data into account, an acceleration of factor 28 in comparison to the currently applied algorithm could be reached. For future work the presented rasterization algorithm offers additional potential for further speed up.

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Norbert Spieß, Michael Zapf, and Nicole V. Ruiter "Evaluation of the Bresenham algorithm for image reconstruction with ultrasound computer tomography", Proc. SPIE 7968, Medical Imaging 2011: Ultrasonic Imaging, Tomography, and Therapy, 796803 (25 March 2011); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.878255

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Reconstruction algorithms

Optical spheres

Algorithm development

Computed tomography

Image restoration

Signal detection

Ultrasonography

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