Hardware assisted multichannel volume rendering

Proceedings of Computer Graphics International Conference, CGI

Volumn 2003-January, Issue , 2003, Pages 2-7

  Ghosh, Abhijeet ^a   Prabhu, Poojan ^a,b   Kaufman, A E ^a   Mueller, K ^a  

^a Stony Brook University   (United States)

^b Frounhofer Institute of Computer Graphics   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biomedical imaging; Computed tomography; Computer graphics; Data visualization; Hardware; Humans; Magnetic resonance imaging; Rendering (computer graphics); Satellites; Terrain mapping

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DATA VISUALIZATION; HARDWARE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEDICAL IMAGING; RENDERING (COMPUTER GRAPHICS); SATELLITES; VISUALIZATION; VOLUME RENDERING;

BIOMEDICAL IMAGING; HARDWARE-ASSISTED; HUMANS; MULTI-MODAL INFORMATION; MULTICHANNEL DATA; PHOTOREALISTIC RENDERING; SCALABILITY ISSUE; TERRAIN MAPPING;

COMPUTER HARDWARE;

EID: 33847311492     PISSN: 15301052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CGI.2003.1214440     Document Type: Conference Paper

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