Local ambient occlusion in direct volume rendering

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 548-559

  Hernell, Frida ^a   Ljung, Patric ^b   Ynnerman, Anders ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Emissive tissues; Local illumination; Medical visualization; Shading; Shadowing; Volume rendering; Volumetric ambient occlusion

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION CONTROL; ADAPTIVE SAMPLING; AMBIENT OCCLUSION; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIRECT VOLUME RENDERING; ILLUMINATION EFFECT; ILLUMINATION SETTINGS; INCIDENT LIGHT; INTERACTIVE FRAME RATES; LARGE DATASETS; LOCAL APPROACHES; LOCAL APPROXIMATION; LOCAL ILLUMINATION; MEDICAL VISUALIZATION; MULTI-RESOLUTIONS; NOISY DATA; NOVEL TECHNIQUES; SHADOWED REGIONS; SHADOWING;

HISTOLOGY; TISSUE; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS; VISUALIZATION;

VOLUME RENDERING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; METHODOLOGY; THEORETICAL MODEL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 77952744983     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2009.45     Document Type: Article

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