Thanks to our friends at Endra Inc. , we’ve had an opportunity to involve ourselves in GPU -based algorithm acceleration. This has ended up, for us, being a substantial deep-dive into technologies such as CUDA and OpenCL , but with significant results. The advantages of GPU acceleration over conventional …

You may have been wondering what’s been keeping us busy over the past few months; after all, our blog has been pretty silent. We’ve been hard at work, and are ready to disclose the results of a few of the projects that are nearing completion. Stay tuned…

Thanks to everyone who pointed out that our sign-up form MicroView testing wasn’t accessible. It should be fixed now, so scroll down and try again if you’re interested in taking part.

We’ve recently been experimenting with Infiniband as a replacement for GigE networking as the fabric for a few compute-intensive ideas that we’re working on. In particular, we’re evaluating OFED , Gluster and OpenMPI to see whether the impressive speed improvements that Infiniband can provide over …

Historically, researchers using pre-clinical CT have focused on two types of resolution – spatial and contrast. However, with cardiac CT, one should also be concerned about [temporal …

MicroView We’re not ready to release code or binaries yet for the long-overdue set of improvements to the sourceforge version of MicroView . As mentioned previously , we’re busy working on improved image format support, ironing out VTK 5.6.1 issues with the Windows 64-bit platforms, and starting on Intel …

Well, that didn’t take long! Dr. Philippe Choquet, a self-proclaimed MicroView “fanatic”, wins our first blog contest for noting that in the attached image MicroView is running as a standalone 64-bit Windows application. It’s a well known limitation that MicroView on win32 is limited to loading …

The open source branch of the MicroView project hasn’t seen any development activity for a long time now, and it would be easy to write it off as one of countless other abandonware projects on sourceforge . We think that’s too bad, and would like to take steps to reinvigorate the site - that’s why …

For years now, the importance of preclinical imaging for drug discovery has been stressed. Pharmaceuticals and CROs are under pressure to streamline the discovery and development phases of drug development, and imaging is invaluable in this regard. In addition, imaging has become an important part of clinical trials; …

Many thanks to Dr. Terry Peters for inviting us to the recent Slicer3D workshop, held at UWO today, in conjunction with the J.P. Robarts Research Institute . The workshop was a hands-on tutorial of a pre-release version of Slicer3D from an end-user’s perspective followed by an introduction to the application from …