Hybrid visualization for white matter tracts using triangle strips and point sprites

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1181-1188

  Merhof, Dorit ^b   Sonntag, Markus ^b   Enders, Frank ^b   Nimsky, Christopher ^b   Hastreiter, Peter ^a,b   Greiner, Günther ^b  

^a IEEE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Diffusion tensor data; Fiber tracking; Streamline visualization

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSION TENSOR DATA; FIBER TRACKING; STREAMLINE VISUALIZATION;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; BRAIN; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MODAL ANALYSIS;

TRACKING (POSITION);

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN TUMOR; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; METHODOLOGY; MYELINATED NERVE; NERVE TRACT; PATHOLOGY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; NEURAL PATHWAYS; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 33845645074     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2006.151     Document Type: Conference Paper

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