Recent advances in hardware-accelerated volume rendering

Computers and Graphics (Pergamon)

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 725-734

  Ma, Kwan Liu ^a   Lum, Eric B ^a   Muraki, Shigeru ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

3D texture; Data compression; Data visualization; Graphics hardware; Image processing; Volume rendering

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; DATA COMPRESSION; DECODING; IMAGE PROCESSING; PROBLEM SOLVING;

DATA VISUALIZATION; VOLUME RENDERING;

COMPUTER HARDWARE;

EID: 0142180135     PISSN: 00978493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0097-8493(03)00146-8     Document Type: Article

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