The medical exploration toolkit: An efficient support for visual computing in surgical planning and training

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 133-146

  Mühler, Konrad ^a   Tietjen, Christian ^a   Ritter, Felix ^b   Preim, Bernhard ^a  

^a OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b FRAUNHOFER MEVIS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Graphical programming; Life and medical sciences; Medical visualization; Software engineering; Software library; Visualization applications; Visualization techniques and methodologies

Indexed keywords

ENGINEERING SOFTWARE; GRAPHICAL PROGRAMMING; MEDICAL SCIENCE; MEDICAL VISUALIZATION; VISUALIZATION APPLICATION; VISUALIZATION TECHNIQUES AND METHODOLOGIES;

ANIMATION; CONCURRENT ENGINEERING; IMAGE ANALYSIS; JOB ANALYSIS; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; RAPID PROTOTYPING; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; THREE DIMENSIONAL; USER INTERFACES; VISUALIZATION; VOLUME RENDERING;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER ASSISTED SURGERY; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EDUCATION; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; TEACHING; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ANIMALS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-ASSISTED INSTRUCTION; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SOFTWARE; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 70450250126     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2009.58     Document Type: Article

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