VIZARD II: A reconfigurable interactive volume rendering system

Proceedings of the SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Workshop on Graphics Hardware

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 137-146

  Meissner M ^a   Kanus, U ^a   Wetekam, G ^a   Hirche, J ^a   Ehlert, A ^a   Strasser W ^a   Doggett, M ^c   Forthmann, P ^a   Proksa, R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Germany)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CALCULATIONS; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); INTERPOLATION; MEDICAL IMAGING; RAY TRACING; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

PHONG SHADING; RAY CASTING; VOLUME RENDERING;

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 0036949641     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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