Dynamic real-time 4D cardiac MDCT image display using GPU-accelerated volume rendering

Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 461-476

  Zhang, Qi ^a   Eagleson, Roy ^a   Peters, Terry M ^a  

^a ROBARTS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

4D volume rendering; Cardiac intervention; Dynamic multiresolution; Graphics processing units (GPUs); Image guided therapy; Optical density radiation model; Ray casting; Real time; Retrospective electrocardiographic (ECG) gating; Stereoscopic rendering; Volume of interest (VOI)

Indexed keywords

4D VOLUME RENDERING; CARDIAC INTERVENTION; GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNITS (GPUS); IMAGE-GUIDED THERAPY; OPTICAL DENSITY RADIATION MODEL; RAY-CASTING; REAL-TIME; RETROSPECTIVE ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHIC (ECG) GATING; STEREOSCOPIC RENDERING; VOLUME OF INTEREST (VOI);

BINOCULAR VISION; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DATA COMPRESSION; DENSITY (OPTICAL); DENSITY MEASUREMENT (OPTICAL); DISPLAY DEVICES; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCHROMIC DEVICES; MEDICAL IMAGING; MULTIRESOLUTION ANALYSIS; OPACITY; PIPELINE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PIPELINES; VISUALIZATION; VOLUME RENDERING;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FOUR DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; HEART VOLUME; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING AND DISPLAY; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; VOLUMETRY;

CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CARDIAC-GATED IMAGING TECHNIQUES; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, FOUR-DIMENSIONAL; HUMANS; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 67349244385     PISSN: 08956111     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compmedimag.2009.04.002     Document Type: Article

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