Direct interval volume visualization

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1505-1514

  Ament, Marco ^a   Weiskopf, Daniel ^a   Carr, Hamish ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

direct volume rendering; interval volume; isosurface; preintegration; ray casting; scale invariant opacity

Indexed keywords

DIRECT VOLUME RENDERING; INTERVAL VOLUMES; ISO SURFACE; PRE-INTEGRATION; RAY CASTING; SCALE-INVARIANT;

OPACITY; VISUALIZATION;

VOLUME RENDERING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FACTUAL DATABASE; HEAD; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; STATISTICS;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATABASES, FACTUAL; HEAD; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, ANATOMIC;

EID: 78149244238     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2010.145     Document Type: Article

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