A PARALLEL ALGORITHM FOR PULSED-LASER INFRARED TOMOGRAPHY

A three-dimensional Tomographic Reconstruction Algorithm (3D TRA) has been developed and implemented on a parallel machine at the Maul High Performance Computing Center (MHPCC). Given a time sequence of infrare d images, this algorithm provides information to determine the locatio n, physical dimensions, and initial space-dependent temperature increa se of laser heated blood vessels. In this approach the serial computat ion of a 3D TRA is decomposed into multiple tasks which can be execute d in parallel to reduce the computation time. (C) 1998 Elsevier Scienc e B.V. All rights reserved.