Rapidly generate lumbar spine volume mesh

Proceedings - Ninth International Conference on Computer Aided Design and Computer Graphics, CAD/CG 2005

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 345-350

  Liao, Shenghui ^a   Tong, Ruofeng ^a   Wang, Minke ^a   Dong, Jingxiang ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

GRID NODES; LUMBAR SPINE VOLUME MESH; SURFACE MESH; WARPED SURFACE MODEL;

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS;

EID: 33847260342     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CAD-CG.2005.66     Document Type: Conference Paper

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