Visualizing diffusion tensor imaging data with merging ellipsoids

IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium, PacificVis 2009 - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 145-151

  Chen, Wei ^a   Zhang, Song ^b   Correia, Stephen ^c   Tate, David F ^d  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Diffusion tensor imaging; Visualization; Volume rendering

Indexed keywords

ANATOMICAL STRUCTURES; BIOLOGICAL TISSUES; CONNECTIVITY INFORMATION; DIFFUSION TENSOR; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; EXPERT EVALUATION; FIBER STRUCTURES; FIBER TRACTS; INTEGRAL CURVES; INTEGRATION ERROR; LOCAL INFORMATION; NEURAL FIBERS; TRACTOGRAPHY; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL TOOLS; VISUALIZATION TECHNIQUE; WHITE MATTER FIBERS;

ANISOTROPY; DIFFUSION; FIBERS; FLOW VISUALIZATION; GRAPHIC METHODS; VISUAL COMMUNICATION; VOLUME RENDERING;

TENSORS;

EID: 67650551243     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PACIFICVIS.2009.4906849     Document Type: Conference Paper

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