Interactive volume rendering of thin thread structures within multivalued scientific data sets

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 664-671

  Wenger, Andreas ^a,b   Keefe, Daniel F ^a,b   Zhang, Song ^a,b   Laidlaw, David H ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b Brown Univerity   (United States)

Author keywords

Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI); Direct volume rendering; Fluid flow visualization; Medical imaging; Multitextures; PC graphics hardware; Scientific visualization; Volume graphics; Volume shading

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING (DTI); FLUID FLOW VISUALIZATION; MULTITEXTURES; PC GRAPHICS HARDWARE; SCIENTIFIC VISUALIZATION; VOLUME GRAPHICS; VOLUME SHADING;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; VECTORS; VISUALIZATION;

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; BLOOD RHEOLOGY; BRAIN; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORONARY BLOOD VESSEL; FACTUAL DATABASE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; BRAIN; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORONARY VESSELS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; HEMORHEOLOGY; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, ANATOMIC; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL;

EID: 16544384301     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2004.46     Document Type: Article

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