Rendering tetrahedral meshes with higher-order attenuation functions for digital radiograph reconstruction

Proceedings of the IEEE Visualization Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 39-

  Sadowsky, Ofri ^a   Cohen, Jonathan D ^a   Taylor, Russell H ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION FUNCTION; DIGITALLY RECONSTRUCTED RADIOGRAPHS; HIGHER-ORDER FUNCTIONS; RECTILINEAR GRID;

ATTENUATION; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DATA STRUCTURES; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; INTERPOLATION; SURGERY;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

EID: 33749451467     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/VIS.2005.87     Document Type: Conference Paper

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