Depth-buffer targeting for spatially accurate 3-D visualization of medical images

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 19, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 1024-1031

  Hartmann, Steven L ^a   Galloway Jr , Robert L ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD VESSELS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; ONCOLOGY; SURGERY;

DEPTH-BUFFER TARGETING; INTERACTIVE IMAGE-GUIDED SURGERY (IIGS);

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RADIOGRAPHY; SKULL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; SKULL; SOFTWARE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VIDEO-ASSISTED SURGERY;

EID: 0034287387     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/42.887617     Document Type: Article

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