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13 - Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Metallurgy and Materials
University of Manchester : B - Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Parallel-Data Reconstruction for Limited Views Tomography Sensors by Sinusoidal Hough Transform
Parallel computing is introduced and implemented on hardware (FPGA) for solving the tomography inverse problem by sinogram recovery or centre-of-mass tracking. Compared with prior art, the speed-up is between 3 and 4 orders of magnitude, independent of the imaged object complexity. The solution has been taken up by the EPSRC-funded iMAGiMAT demonstrator capable of KHz frame rate real-time video: http://www.reuters.com/video/2012/10/08/magic-carpet-a-hi-tech-safety-net-for-el?videoId=238243515&videoChannel=5, which is in preparation for spin-off commercialisation (contact details available) following industrial and user interest (Help the Aged and E4Structures, contact details available). This work won the Best Technical Presentation Award at the 2013 World Congress on Industrial Process Tomography.