Hybrid volume ray tracing of multiple isosurfaces with arbitrary opacity values

IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems

Volumn E79-D, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 965-972

  Hirait, Têtu ^a   Yamamotqtt, Tsuyoshi ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Computer graphics; Isosurface; Medical imaging; Ray tracing; Volume rendering

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MEDICINE;

ISOSURFACES; RAY TRACING; VOLUME RENDERING;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 0030188769     PISSN: 09168532     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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