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CONRAD Article Published

The fundamental article describing the CONRAD framework has just appeared in Medical Physics and is available for free download:

Opens external link in new windowCONRAD—A software framework for cone-beam imaging in radiology

Thanks to all the contributors to their help!

 

 

CONRAD

Slice view of a 3-D Shepp Logan Phantom
A slice through Catphan Module CTP 528

CONRAD is a state-of-the-art software platform with extensive documentation. It is based on platform-independent technologies. Special libraries offer access to hardware acceleration such as CUDA and OpenCL. There is an easy interface for parallel processing. The software package includes different simulation tools that are able to generate 4-D projection and volume data and respective vector motion fields. Well known reconstruction algorithms such as FBP, DBP, and ART are included. All algorithms in the package are referenced to a scientific source.

The software package is developed at the Radiological Sciences Laboratory, Stanford University and the Pattern Recognition Lab of the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg.

The software allows also to render various phantoms like:

Acknowledgments

This work was supported in part by NIH under Grant Nos. R01EB003524 and R01HL087917, and the Lucas Foundation. The authors gratefully acknowledge funding of the Erlangen Graduate School in Advanced Optical Technologies (SAOT) and the Research Training Group Heterogeneous Imaging Systems by the German Research Foundation (DFG) in the framework of the German Excellence initiative.