Investigation of Medical 3D-Rendering Algorithms

IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 1990, Pages 41-53

  Tiede, Ulf ^a   Hoehne, Karl Heinz ^a   Bomans, Michael ^a   Pommert, Andreas ^a   Riemer, Martin ^a   Wiebecke, Gunnar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER GRAPHICS--MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING--ALGORITHMS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE--IMAGING TECHNIQUES;

GRADIENT SHADING; SHADING ALGORITHMS; SURFACE RENDERING;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

EID: 0025402072     PISSN: 02721716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/38.50672     Document Type: Article

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