A parallel application for 3D reconstruction of coronal loops using image morphing

This paper presents an approach for 3D reconstruction of X-ray tomographic images of coronal loops, observed on the solar atmosphere by the Japanese satellite Yohkoh. In this approach, the intermediate cross-sections images of the magnetic loop are generated with image morphing controlled by a Bezier curve in arc shape. Due to the high computational costs involved in the processing and visualization of solar images, a parallel application for 3D reconstruction of a coronal loop was implemented to execute in the Atlas parallel system.