astra-toolbox 2.5.0

High-performance GPU primitives and algorithms for 2D and 3D tomography

The ASTRA Toolbox provides high-performance GPU primitives for 2D and 3D tomography. It supports 2D parallel and fan beam, and 3D parallel and cone beam geometries. All of them have highly flexible source/detector positioning. A large number of 2D and 3D algorithms are available, including FBP, SIRT, SART, CGLS. The basic forward and backward projection operations are GPU-accelerated, and directly callable from Python to enable building new algorithms.

References

If you use the ASTRA Toolbox for your research, we would appreciate it if you would refer to the following papers:

W. van Aarle, W. J. Palenstijn, J. Cant, E. Janssens, F. Bleichrodt, A. Dabravolski, J. De Beenhouwer, K. J. Batenburg, and J. Sijbers, "Fast and Flexible X-ray Tomography Using the ASTRA Toolbox", Optics Express, 24(22), 25129-25147, (2016), https://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OE.24.025129

W. van Aarle, W. J. Palenstijn, J. De Beenhouwer, T. Altantzis, S. Bals, K. J. Batenburg, and J. Sijbers, "The ASTRA Toolbox: A platform for advanced algorithm development in electron tomography", Ultramicroscopy, 157, 35-47, (2015), https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ultramic.2015.05.002

Additionally, if you use parallel beam GPU code, we would appreciate it if you would refer to the following paper:

W. J. Palenstijn, K J. Batenburg, and J. Sijbers, "Performance improvements for iterative electron tomography reconstruction using graphics processing units (GPUs)", Journal of Structural Biology, vol. 176, issue 2, pp. 250-253, 2011, https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jsb.2011.07.017

License

The ASTRA Toolbox is open source under the GPLv3 license.

Copyright

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