Interactive visualization and navigation tool for medical volume data

Computers and Graphics (Pergamon)

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 233-244

  Sommer, Ove ^a   Dietz, Alexander ^a   Westermann, Rüdiger ^a   Ertl, Thomas ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTER GRAPHICS EQUIPMENT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER WORKSTATIONS; CONVOLUTION; DATA REDUCTION; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; MEDICAL IMAGING; RAY TRACING; SURGERY;

CLIPPING GEOMETRIES; GRAPHICS HARDWARE; OPEN INVENTOR; VOLUME RENDERING;

THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 0032682784     PISSN: 00978493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0097-8493(99)00033-3     Document Type: Article

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