Fast DRR splat rendering using common consumer graphics hardware

Medical Physics

Volumn 34, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 4302-4308

  Spoerk, Jakob ^a,b   Bergmann, Helmar ^b   Wanschitz, Felix ^b   Dong, Shuo ^b,c   Birkfellner, Wolfgang ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES TECHNIKUM WIEN   (Austria)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER GRAPHICS EQUIPMENT; IMAGE REGISTRATION; MEDICAL IMAGING; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; VOLUME RENDERING;

2D/3D REGISTRATION; CONSUMER GRAPHICS HARDWARE; IMAGE GUIDED RADIOTHERAPY; IMAGE PROCESSING APPLICATIONS; POSE DETERMINATION; SPECIAL PROCESSING; VOLUME RENDERING METHODS; WOBBLED SPLATTING;

GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNIT;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER; CONSUMER; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

EID: 35648999975     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2789500     Document Type: Article

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