[Rtk-users] Release of RTK v1.4.0

[Simon Rit]

Dear RTK users,
RTK v1.4.0 <https://github.com/SimonRit/RTK/archive/v1.4.0.zip> has just
been released, about 17 months after RTK v1.3.0. This should be the last
release before a more significant RTK re-factoring to become an ITK
external module (see RTK-ExternalModule GitHub branch
<https://github.com/SimonRit/RTK/tree/RTK-ExternalModule>).

Release notes:
* Many SimpleRTK improvements, including a large update based on SimpleITK
0.10.0
* Continuous integration: improved TravisCI, added CircleCI and AppVeyorCI
* Added ITK style git hooks.
* Improvement of geometric phantoms, added Forbild capability
* Geometry for Bioscan NanoSPECT/CT
* Better description of geometry, with doxygen drawings
* Parallel geometry for rtk::JosephForwardProjectionImageFilter
* Support for cylindrical detectors:
 - limited to iterative
 - not using displaced detectors
 - ray based projectors can handle any radius
 - voxel-based back projectors (CPU and CUDA) can only handle
source-centered cylindrical detectors
* Several methods for spectral CT reconstruction:
 - forward model
 - material decomposition of projections
 - aberrant pixels removal
 - regularized multi-channel reconstruction (nuclear TV regularization)
* Geometry options for jaw collimation
* Ray-based iterators to seamlessly handle all rays of a stack of
projections
* Updates on Varian Xim geometry reading and projections processing
* Updates on medPhoton Ora reading and projections processing
* Varian HNC reader
* Method to generate an RTK geometry from calibration matrices

Many thanks to all contributors, in alphabetical order for this release:
Ali Uneri, Andreas Gravgaard Andersen, Bernhard Froehler, Brent van der
Heyden, Cyril Mory, David Kügler, Fabien Momey, Hans Johnson, Jerome
Lesaint, Julien Jomier, Kiran Joshi, Lotte Schyns, Lucas Gandel, Sébastien
Brousmiche, Simon Rit, Thibault Notargiacomo and Thomas Baudier.

As usual, be aware that we don't focus on releases since we have a public
github repository <http://github.com/SimonRit/RTK> that we try to keep
stable. I still recommend the use of the master HEAD over releases to enjoy
the new RTK developments before their release. We still have a few on-going
projects for which we will use and enhance RTK.

Simon (for the RTK consortium)
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