Interactive ray tracing for volume visualization

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 238-250

  Parker, Steven ^a,b   Parker, Michael ^b   Livnat, Yarden ^b   Sloan, Peter Pike ^b   Hansen, Charles ^b   Shirley, Peter ^b  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MULTIPROCESSING SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; RAY TRACING;

VOLUME VISUALIZATION;

IMAGING TECHNIQUES;

EID: 0033329744     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/2945.795215     Document Type: Article

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