Projected tetrahedra revisited: A barycentric formulation applied to digital radiograph reconstruction using higher-order attenuation functions

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 461-473

  Sadowsky, Ofri ^a,b,c   Cohen, Jonathan D ^a,b,c   Taylor, Russell H ^a,b,c,d,e  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Department of Computer Science ^*  (United States)

^e NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION   (United States)

Author keywords

DRR; Higher order volumetric functions; Projected tetrahedra; Unstructured grids; Volume rendering

Indexed keywords

DRR; GRAPHICS HARDWARE; HIGHER-ORDER VOLUMETRIC FUNCTIONS; ORTHOGRAPHIC PROJECTION MODELS; PROJECTED TETRAHEDRA; UNSTRUCTURED GRIDS; VOLUME RENDERING;

ALGORITHMS; ATTENUATION; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR SYSTEMS; INTERPOLATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POLYNOMIALS;

RADIOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EVALUATION; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; BAYES THEOREM; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 33744742631     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2006.77     Document Type: Conference Paper

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