An efficient out-of-core volume ray casting method for the visualization of large medical data sets

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6509, Issue PART 2, 2007, Pages

  Xue, Jian ^a   Tian, Jie ^a,b   Chen, Jian ^a   Dai, Yakang ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF AUTOMATION   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Out of core; Ray casting; Visualization; Volume rendering

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; MEDICAL IMAGING; PROBLEM SOLVING; RANDOM PROCESSES; RAY TRACING; VOLUME RENDERING;

CACHED DATA SETS; MEDICAL DATA SETS; RAY CASTING;

DATA VISUALIZATION;

EID: 35148849645     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.709633     Document Type: Conference Paper

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