Interactive physically-based x-ray simulation: CPU or GPU?

Studies in Health Technology and Informatics

Volumn 125, Issue , 2007, Pages 479-481

  Vidal, Franck P ^a   John, Nigel W ^a   Guillemot, Romain M ^b  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE REIMS CHAMPAGNE ARDENNE   (France)

Author keywords

GPU based volume rendering; Interventional radiology; X ray simulation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER GRAPHICS EQUIPMENT; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; RADIATION; RADIOLOGY; VIRTUAL REALITY; VOLUME RENDERING;

GPU-BASED VOLUME RENDERING; GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNIT (GPU); INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY; MINIMALLY INVASIVE; PHYSICALLY BASED; PHYSICALLY-BASED SIMULATION; TARGETED TREATMENT; TRAINING SIMULATOR;

GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNIT;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EUROPE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; RADIOLOGY; X RAY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EUROPE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOLOGY; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; X-RAYS;

EID: 34248571261     PISSN: 09269630     EISSN: 18798365     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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