High performance visualization in a hospital operating theatre

Proceedings - Theory and Practice of Computer Graphics, TPCG 2003

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 170-175

  John, N W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biomedical imaging; Computed tomography; Data visualization; Hardware; Hospitals; Magnetic resonance imaging; Surgery; Surges; Tumors; Workstations

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER HARDWARE; COMPUTER WORKSTATIONS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DATA VISUALIZATION; HARDWARE; HOSPITALS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEDICAL IMAGING; SURGERY; THEATERS; TUMORS; VISUALIZATION;

3-D (THREE-DIMENSIONAL); BIOMEDICAL IMAGING; HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING; INNOVATIVE SYSTEMS; PERFORMANCE VISUALIZATION; SOFTWARE AND HARDWARES; SURGES; VISUALIZATION TOOLS;

THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 4043070294     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/TPCG.2003.1206945     Document Type: Conference Paper

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