High performance volume splatting for visualization of neurovascular data

Proceedings of the IEEE Visualization Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 35-

  Vega Higuera, F ^a   Hastreiter, P ^a   Fahlbusch, R ^a   Greiner, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Neurovascular structures; Segmented data; Volume splatting; Volume visualization

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; COMPUTER HARDWARE; GRAPHIC METHODS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS; VISUALIZATION;

HARDWARE ACCELERATED; NEUROVASCULAR STRUCTURES; SEGMENTED DATA; VOLUME SPLATTING;

DATA PROCESSING;

EID: 33749448718     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/VIS.2005.47     Document Type: Conference Paper

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