ASSOCIATIVE PROCESSOR PARTICULARLY USEFUL FOR TOMOGRAPHIC IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION

In an associative processor particularly useful for tomographic image reconstruction, the associative memory is partitioned into an array of associative processors concurrently performing the same function with different operands on disjoint data sets. The array is dynamically reconfigurable, and the partitioning is completely flexible, with individual processors free to assume any size and topology. While the new associative processor is of broad application, its power is specifically demonstrated for tomographic image reconstruction by the well-known convolution-back-projection method.