Tricubic Interpolation of Discrete Surfaces for Binary Volumes

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 580-586

  Kadosh, Arie ^a   Cohen Or, Daniel ^b   Yagel, Roni ^c  

^a Global CommerceZone   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c INSIGHTEC LTD   (Israel)

Author keywords

Distance function; High order interpolation; Ray casting; Volume rendering; Volume visualization

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BINARY CODES; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; INTERPOLATION; MEDICAL IMAGING;

RAY CASTING; VOLUME VISUALIZATION; VOXELIZATION;

THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 0242579148     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2003.1260750     Document Type: Article

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