Volume rendering of visible human data for an anatomical virtual environment

Studies in Health Technology and Informatics

Volumn 29, Issue , 1996, Pages 352-370

  Kerr, John ^a   Ratiu, Peter ^a   Sellberg, Mike ^a  

^a Engineering Animation Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; BLOOD VESSELS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; IMAGE TEXTURE; MAPS; MEDICAL IMAGING; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; RAY TRACING; VOLUME RENDERING;

AUTOMATED SEGMENTATION; MEDICAL VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT; NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINES; SEGMENTATION TECHNIQUES; THREEDIMENSIONAL (3-D); TWO DIMENSIONAL (2 D); VOLUME REPRESENTATIONS; VOLUMETRIC REPRESENTATION;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

ANATOMY; ARTICLE; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE;

ANATOMY, CROSS-SECTIONAL; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA DISPLAY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 0030330009     PISSN: 09269630     EISSN: 18798365     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.3233/978-1-60750-873-1-352     Document Type: Article

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