Ray casting architectures for volume visualization

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 210-223

  Ray, Harvey ^a   Pfister, Hanspeter ^b   Silver, Deborah ^a   Cook, Todd A ^c  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Mitsubishi Electric Research   (United States)

^c Improv Systems   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SUPERCOMPUTERS;

RAY CASTING ARCHITECTURE; VOLUME VISUALIZATION;

IMAGING TECHNIQUES;

EID: 0033336907     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/2945.795213     Document Type: Article

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