Ray casting on shared-memory architectures: Memory-hierarchy considerations in volume rendering

IEEE Concurrency

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 20-35

  Palmer, Michael E ^a,c,d,e   Totty, Brian ^a,c,f,g,h   Taylor, Stephen ^b,i  

^a Inktomi ^*  (United States)

^b SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Inktomi Corporation   (United States)

^d YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^f HEWLETT PACKARD ENTERPRISE   (United States)

^g MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

ⁱ WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BONE; DATA STRUCTURES; MEDICAL IMAGING; MUSCLE; OPTIMIZATION; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

LOAD BALANCING; PARALLEL PARTITIONING; RAY CASTING PROCESS; VOLUME RENDERING;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 0031702410     PISSN: 10923063     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/4434.656777     Document Type: Article

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