Wobbled splatting - A fast perspective volume rendering method for simulation of x-ray images from CT

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 50, Issue 9, 2005, Pages

  Birkfellner, Wolfgang ^a   Seemann, Rudolf ^a   Figl, Michael ^a   Hummel, Johann ^a,b   Ede, Christopher ^a   Homolka, Peter ^a   Yang, Xinhui ^c   Niederer, Peter ^c   Bergmann, Helmar ^a,b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b LUDWIG BOLTZMANN INSTITUTE FOR LUNG VASCULAR RESEARCH   (Austria)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; ONCOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; RANDOM PROCESSES; X RAY ANALYSIS;

PROJECTION IMAGES; STOCHASTIC DISTORTION; VOXEL RENDERINGS; WOBBLED SPLATTING;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOGRAPHY; SIMULATION; STOCHASTIC MODEL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; X RAY ANALYSIS; ALGORITHM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EVALUATION; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; VALIDATION STUDY;

ALGORITHMS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 22844435657     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/50/9/N01     Document Type: Article

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