Memory efficient acceleration structures and techniques for CPU-based volume raycasting of large data

Proceedings - IEEE Symposium on Volume Visualization and Graphics 2004. VolVis 2004

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 1-8

  Grimm, Sören ^a   Bruckner, Stefan ^a   Kanitsar, Armin ^b   Gröller, Eduard ^a  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b Tiani Medgraph AG   (Austria)

Author keywords

Acceleration techniques; Large data; Volume raycasting

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGRAPHY; BANDWIDTH; DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SCANNING; TOMOGRAPHY;

ACCELERATION TECHNIQUES; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY (CT); LARGE DATA; VOLUME RAYCASTING;

DATA REDUCTION;

EID: 15944416084     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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