Real-time illustration of vascular structures

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 877-884

  Ritter, Felix ^a   Hansen, Christian ^a   Dicken, Volker ^a   Konrad, Olaf ^a   Preim, Bernhard ^b   Peitgen, Heinz Otto ^a  

^a MeVis GmbH   (Germany)

^b OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Evaluation; Functional realism; Illustrative rendering; Spatial perception; Vessel visualization

Indexed keywords

FUNCTIONAL REALISM; ILLUSTRATIVE RENDERING; SPATIAL PERCEPTION; VESSEL VISUALIZATION;

ALGORITHMS; BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; BLOOD VESSELS; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; SENSORY PERCEPTION;

REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SYSTEM; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MALE; MEDICAL ILLUSTRATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROCIRCULATION; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VASCULARIZATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEDICAL ILLUSTRATION; MICROCIRCULATION; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, ANATOMIC; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 33845630617     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2006.172     Document Type: Conference Paper

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