Volumetric depth peeling for medical image display

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6060, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Borland, David ^a   Clarke, John P ^b   Fielding, Julia R ^b   Taylor II, Russell M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Applications of volume graphics and volume visualization; View dependent visualization; Visualization in medicine; Volume rendering

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER VISION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; PEELING; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

APPLICATIONS OF VOLUME GRAPHICS AND VOLUME VISUALIZATION; OCCLUSION; VIEW-DEPENDENT VISUALIZATION; VIRTUAL ARTHROSCOPY; VISUALIZATION IN MEDICINE; VOLUME RENDERING; VOLUMETRIC DEPTH PEELING (VDP);

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 33645696668     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.641497     Document Type: Conference Paper

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