Visualizing the beating heart: Interactive direct volume rendering of high-resolution CT time series using standard PC hardware

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6141, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Lehmann, Heiko ^a   Ecabert, Olivier ^a   Geller, Dieter ^a   Kiefer, Gundolf ^a   Weese, Jürgen ^a  

^a PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cardiac imaging; CT; Diagnosis; Direct volume rendering; GPU; Time series; Volume visualization 3D 4D

Indexed keywords

CARDIOLOGY; COMPUTER HARDWARE; DATABASE SYSTEMS; DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; MEDICAL IMAGING; PERSONAL COMPUTERS;

CARDIAC IMAGING; DIRECT VOLUME RENDERING; GPU; TIME SERIES; VOLUME VISUALIZATION 3D/4D;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 33745425204     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.652087     Document Type: Conference Paper

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