InstaRecon Products:
InstaRecon® xCBR
The world’s fastest cone-beam reconstruction engine for Micro-CT. InstaRecon® xCBR runs on a single PC, reconstructing images up to 15K x 15K in cross-section. InstaRecon xCBR provides both a command line and DLL interface to our powerful reconstruction engine, for integration by scanner manufacturers and OEMs into their CT and micro-CT products or custom scanners. We offer assistance with interfacing our software to the scanner or other software.
InstaRecon® CBR Premium™ 15K
The same blazing fast cone-beam reconstruction engine as InstaRecon® xCBR, but specifically designed for use with Bruker micro-CT and nano-CT scanners. InstaRecon CBR Premium™ 15K offers seamless integration with Bruker micro-CT and nano-CT scanners and its NRecon GUI. InstaRecon® CBR Premium™ 15K runs on a single PC, reconstructing images up to 15K x 15K in cross-section.
Download the InstaRecon® CBR Brochure (PDF)
Free one-month demo
Contact us at info@instarecon.com to receive a free one-month demo of InstaRecon® xCBR or InstaRecon® CBR Premium™ 15K. Please use subject line “CBR Demo”, and specify which product you are interested in.
InstaRecon® Reconstruction Engine Features
More brain than brawn. Based on patented algorithms, the InstaRecon® CBR reconstruction engine provides a new way to do the computation, rather than throwing more hardware at the problem.
Accelerated Reconstruction. InstaRecon® CBR provides speedups of 10x to 100x compared to the fastest CPU-based reconstruction software, and 2x to 10x compared to GPU-based solutions.
General Purpose InstaRecon® xCBR provides the option for both command line and DLL interfaces to integrate with any software and scanner.
Seamless Integration with all Bruker/SkyScan micro-CT and nano-CT scanners.
InstaRecon® CBR Premium™ 15K is provided as the standard reconstruction engine with all new large image format systems, and available as an upgrade to existing installations.
Why Should You Get InstaRecon® CBR Premium™ 15K or InstaRecon® xCBR?
Increase the throughput of your micro-CT scanner and accelerate the pace of discovery. Quickly close the loop for your micro-CT experiments and make the most out of your investment.
InstaRecon® CBR reconstruction engine is whisper-quiet and green. Save precious space in your lab or server room by eliminating the extra PCs and hardware you would need with other solutions, and cut down electricity and cooling costs.
InstaRecon® CBR reconstruction engine is future-proof. Unlike massive hardware-based solutions, a single, moderate cost PC upgrade is all that is needed to benefit from increasing processor speeds.
Performance Benchmarks
Speedup Results
Platform Descriptions
- PC Platform – 2x Xeon @ 3.1 GHz (16 total cores), 128 GB RAM, 4x3TB SATA 7200 in RAID0, Windows 7
- Bruker Platforms for Comparison
- PC + GPU Platform – Above PC Platform + GTX 590
- 4x (PC + GPU Platform) – Four copies of above PC + GPU platform connected over LAN
- Tesla GPU Cluster – 8x Telsa C2075, 2x Xeon @ 3.46 GHz (12 total cores), 144 GB RAM, 2x300GB SSD in RAID0, Windows 7
Runtime Results
Cross section format | 1K x 1K | 2K x 2K | 4K x 4K | 8K x 8K | 15K x 15K |
Number of cross sections | 615 | 1,229 | 2,255 | 2,495 | 2,610 |
Number of projections | 499 | 996 | 1,990 | 2,157 | 8,100 |
Bruker-microCT NRecon (1 PC) | 238 sec | 3480 sec | 913 min | 3552 min | *1440 hr |
Bruker-microCT NRecon (4 PC) | 43 | 683 | 180 | 700 | *336 |
Bruker-microCT GPURecon (1 PC + GPU) | 21 | 247 | 62 | 275 | 140 |
Bruker-microCT GPURecon (4x (PC + GPU)) | 12 | 84 | 24 | 82 | *45 |
Bruker-microCT GPURecon (Tesla GPU Cluster) | 14 | 98 | 19 | 68 | 19 |
InstaRecon CBR (1 PC) | 12 | 80 | 9 | 43 | 10 |
*Time Estimated
Update History
Version 2.1.0.0 (2-15-20)
- Improved Read Performance
- Improved Initialization Performance
- Memory Planning Bugfixes
- Minor Bugfixes
Version 2.0.4.6 (7-22-19)
- Bug fix for edge ring artifact correction
- Bug fixes for detector binning
Version 2.0.4.5 (10-3-18)
- Enabling additional convolution filters
- Improved accuracy of convolution filters
- Bug fix for Clockwise scan “Reconstruct 180+ only” option
- Adjustments to Resource Utilization Reduction mode
Version 2.0.4.2 (3-2-18)
- Enable Fractional Detector Offset from Bruker Projection Files
- Improved Accuracy of FOV Mask Calculation
Version 2.0.4.0 (7-10-17)
- DLL interface now available
- Option for individual central row and detector for each view (DLL and command line only)
- Automatic dynamic range post processing (DLL and command line only)
- Bruker GUI improvements and bug fixes
- Bug fixes
Version 2.0.3.7 (9-8-16)
- Bug fix for large dataset with many projections resulting in blank output images
- Bug fix for gaussian smoother with high level of smoothing
- Bug fix for header information for JPG and BMP output types
- Bug fix for oscillating y-shift values
Version 2.0.3.6 (6-13-16)
- Minor Bug Fixes
Version 2.0.3.5 (10-26-15)
- Windows 10 Support
- Shortscan Bug Fixes
Version 2.0.3.4 (9-10-15)
- Variable Ring Artifact Correction
- Custom Air Intensity
- Elliptical ROI
- Performance Enhancements
- Bug Fixes
Version 2.0.2.6 (9-16-14)
- Bug fixes
Version 2.0.2.1 (5-21-14)
- Image Quality improvements
- Performance Upgrades
- Bug fixes
Version 2.0.1.7 (1-3-14)
- Now supports 15K x 15K reconstructions
Version 1.4.0.2 (9-26-12)
- Bug fix for TIF header
Version 1.4.0.1 (8-6-12)
- Bug fix for supporting older version of NRecon Client (pre 1.6.7)
Version 1.4.0.0 (5-25-12)
- Enabled remote desktop capability
Version 1.3.8.5 (2-10-12)
- Bug fix for parallel beam reconstruction
Version 1.3.8.4 (11-9-11)
- Bug fix for Dead Detector removal
Version 1.3.8.1 (8-23-11)
- Improved stability of large reconstructions
- Adding PNG header tag for HU
Version 1.3.8.0 (7-11-11)
- Improved Stability on user cancel
- More accurate percentage progress reported
- Improved stability in reconsctructions
Version 1.3.7.2 (7-5-11)
- Upgrade to 12 threads
- Bug fixes for reconstructions
Version 1.3.6.0 (5-25-11)
- Added PNG support
- Improved performance scaling to multiple threads
- Bug fixes