Interactive volume rendering of multimodality 4D cardiac data with the use of consumer graphics hardware

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5029, Issue , 2003, Pages 119-128

  Enders, Frank ^a   Strengert, Magnus ^a   Iserhardt Bauer, Sabine ^a   Aladl, Usaf E ^b   Slomka, Piotr J ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^c CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

4D; Cardiac imaging; Motion segmentation; Multimodality fusion; Volume rendering; Volume visualization

Indexed keywords

CARDIOLOGY; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; IMAGE QUALITY; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; VISUALIZATION;

CARDIAC IMAGING; FOUR DIMENSIONAL; MOTION SEGMENTATION; MULTIMODALITY FUSION; VOLUME VISUALIZATION;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 0042626219     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.480377     Document Type: Conference Paper

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