The application of GPU particle tracing to diffusion tensor field visualization

Proceedings of the IEEE Visualization Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 10-

  Kondratieva, Polina ^a   Krüger, Jens ^a   Westermann, Rüdiger ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Diffusion Tensors; Dynamic Visualization; GPU Particle Tracing and Streamlines; Medical Visualization

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSION TENSOR FIELDS; DYNAMIC VISUALIZATION; PARTICLE TRACING; STREAM TUBES;

DIFFUSION; DYNAMICS; MEDICAL IMAGING; TENSORS; TISSUE; VISUALIZATION;

ELEMENTARY PARTICLES;

EID: 33749442901     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/VIS.2005.98     Document Type: Conference Paper

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