High-quality multimodal volume rendering for preoperative planning of neurosurgical interventions

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1696-1703

  Beyer, Johanna ^a   Hadwiger, Markus ^a   Wolfsberger, Stefan ^b   Bühler, Katja ^a  

^a VRVIS RESEARCH CENTER   (Austria)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Hardware assisted raycasting; Multimodal volume rendering; Surgery planning

Indexed keywords

DATASETS; HARDWARE ASSISTED RAYCASTING; IMAGING MODALITIES; MULTIMODAL VOLUME RENDERING; NEUROSURGICAL INTERVENTIONS; PREOPERATIVE PLANNING; SURGERY PLANNING; THERAPEUTIC EFFECTS;

PATHOLOGY; PATIENT TREATMENT; RADIOLOGY; RAY TRACING; VOLUME RENDERING;

NEUROSURGERY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED SURGERY; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; NEUROSURGERY; PREOPERATIVE CARE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MODELS, ANATOMIC; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEUROSURGERY; PREOPERATIVE CARE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 35948962307     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2007.70560     Document Type: Article

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