Hardware-accelerated glyph based visualization of major white matter tracts for analysis of brain tumors

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 5744, Issue II, 2005, Pages 504-511

  Enders, F ^a,b   Iserhardt Bauer, S ^a,b   Hastreiter, P ^a   Nimsky, C ^a   Ertl, T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

Brain tumor; Consumer graphics hardware; DTI; Glyphs; Volume rendering

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; GRAPHIC METHODS; NEUROLOGY; TENSORS; TOPOLOGY; TUMORS;

BRAIN TUMOR; CONSUMER GRAPHICS HARDWARE; DTI; VOLUME RENDERING;

VISUALIZATION;

EID: 23244457585     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.595511     Document Type: Conference Paper

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