Volume Rendering in the Presence of Partial Volume Effects

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 223-235

  Souza, Andre ^a   Udupa, Jayaram K ^a   Saha, Punam K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

3 D visualization; computed tomography (CT); partial volume effect; volume rendering

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; METHODOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; SKIN; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SKIN; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 17444405595     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: 1558254X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2004.840295     Document Type: Article

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