VIZARD II: An FPGA-based interactive volume rendering system

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 2438 LNCS, Issue , 2002, Pages 1114-1117

  Kanus, Urs ^a   Wetekam, Gregor ^a   Hirche, Johannes ^a   Meißner, Michael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b Viatronix Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CACHE MEMORY; COMPUTATION THEORY; FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS (FPGA); MEMORY ARCHITECTURE; PIPELINES; RECONFIGURABLE ARCHITECTURES; VOLUME RENDERING;

COMPUTATIONAL POWER; DIRECT VOLUME RENDERING; FULLY PIPELINED ARCHITECTURE; INTERACTIVE FRAME RATES; INTERACTIVE VOLUME RENDERINGS; MEMORY BANDWIDTHS; RAY CASTING ALGORITHM; RENDERING PIPELINES;

COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY;

EID: 79955142095     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-46117-5_120     Document Type: Conference Paper

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