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Graphics cards help advance medical imaging

by PJ Hruschak on Feb 20, 2008 at 05:51 PM

Because I couldn't find that old video card they called 'The Annihilator'

PC graphics cards have long been touted as the cutting edge in terms of videogame visuals.  But according to British engineering site The Engineer Online, they also could serve another purpose: the medical field.

In 2006, the researchers found they could do image reconstruction faster via a cluster of networked 64-bit supercomputer, which costs £15,000 (approximately US$30,000).  However, they found a far more cost-effective way to speed it up when they used PCs armed with the newest graphics cards…

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