Medical imaging is one of the earliest applications to take advantage of GPU computing to get acceleration. The use of GPUs in this field has matured to the point that there are several medical modalities shipping with NVIDIA’s Tesla GPUs now.
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| Accelerating Advanced MRI Reconstructions on GPUs Stone, et al |
Computed Tomography Reconstruction Batenburg, Sijbers, et al |
Key Medical Imaging ISVs and Applications Using CUDA
| ISV/Application | Supported Features | Expected Speed up* | Release Status |
| Acceleware AxRecon | Image reconstruction | 20-30x | Released |
| Digisens | Computing/reconstruction algorithms, pre and post filtering | 100x | Released |
* Expected Speed Up vs a quad-core x64 CPU based system. Speed-ups as per NVIDIA in house testing or application provider documentation.
Other Medical Imaging Software/Equipment on CUDA-enabled GPUs