Visualizing Industrial CT Volume Data for Nondestructive Testing Applications

Proceedings of the IEEE Visualization Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 547-554

  Huang, Runzhen ^a   Ma, Kwan Liu ^a   McCormick, Patrick ^b   Ward, William ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Feature extraction; Hardware acceleration rendering; Image processing; Interactive visualization; Nondestructive testing and evaluation; Scientific visualization; Surface modeling; User interface; Volume rendering

Indexed keywords

SURFACE MODELING; VISUAL INSPECTION;

COMPUTER HARDWARE; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE PROCESSING; NONDESTRUCTIVE EXAMINATION; USER INTERFACES;

THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 0242424228     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/VISUAL.2003.1250418     Document Type: Conference Paper

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