Research Article

High Performance 3D PET Reconstruction Using Spherical Basis Functions on a Polar Grid

Table 1

Time performance.

Platform Forward Backward Iteration (s) Improvement
projection (s) projection (s) factor

CPU (np) 417 488 905 1

CPU (MPI-1) 523 (0.79) 748 (0.65) 1,272 0.71
CPU (MPI-2) 315 (1.32) 560 (0.87) 875 1.03
CPU (MPI-4) 214 (1.94) 357 (1.36) 571 1.58
CPU (MPI-8) 209 (1.99) 316 (1.54) 526 1.72

GPU (Overwrite hazard ignored) 79 (5.27) 121 (4.03) 200 4.52
GPU (SRMreload) (58+)97 (2.7) (57+)87 (3.38) (115+)184 3.03
GPU (SRMatomic) 79 (5.27) 232 (2.10) 311 2.90
GPU (SRMrand-at) 79 (5.27) 132 (3.69) 211 4.28