Interactive high-resolution isosurface ray casting on multicore processors

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 603-614

  Wang, Qin ^a,b   Jaja, Joseph ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Interactive isosurface rendering; Multicore; Ray casting; Ray tracing

Indexed keywords

INTERACTIVE ISOSURFACE RENDERING; MULTICORE PROCESSORS; RAY CASTING;

OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; PIXELS; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; SCALABILITY; STORAGE ALLOCATION (COMPUTER); THREE DIMENSIONAL;

RAY TRACING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; EVALUATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 41549122974     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2007.70630     Document Type: Conference Paper

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