Interactive visualization of volumetric white matter connectivity in DT-MRI using a parallel-hardware Hamilton-Jacobi solver

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1480-1487

  Jeong, Won Ki ^a,b   Fletcher, P Thomas ^b   Tao, Ran ^b   Whitaker, Ross T ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b University of Utah   (United States)

Author keywords

Diffusion tensor visualization; Graphics hardware; Interactivity

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSION TENSOR VISUALIZATION; FAST ITERATIVE METHOD; GRAPHICS HARDWARE; GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNIT; HAMILTON JACOBI SOLVER; INTERACTIVITY;

DIFFUSION; HAMILTONIANS; ITERATIVE METHODS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; TENSORS; VOLUMETRIC ANALYSIS;

VISUALIZATION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INSTRUMENTATION; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; METHODOLOGY; MYELINATED NERVE; NERVE TRACT; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STATISTICAL MODEL; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 35948934665     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2007.70571     Document Type: Article

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