The VesselGlyph: Focus & context visualization in CT-angiography

IEEE Visualization 2004 - Proceedings, VIS 2004

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 385-392

  Straka, Matúš ^a   Köchl, Arnold ^b   Červeňanský, Michal ^c   Šrámek, Miloš ^a   Fleischmann, Dominik ^d   La Cruz, Alexandra ^e   Gröller, Eduard ^e  

^a ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c Physics and Informatics   (Slovakia)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Curved planar reformation; Direct volume rendering; Focus context technique; Vessel visualization

Indexed keywords

CONTEXT VISUALIZATION; CURVED PLANAR REFORMATION; DIRECT VOLUME RENDERING; VESSEL VISUALIZATION;

BLOOD VESSELS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASES; FLOW VISUALIZATION; TEXTURES;

ANGIOGRAPHY;

EID: 17044399642     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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