CUDA-accelerated geodesic ray-tracing for fiber tracking

International Journal of Biomedical Imaging

Volumn 2011, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Van Aart, Evert ^a   Sepasian, Neda ^a   Jalba, Andrei ^a   Vilanova, Anna ^a  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL REQUIREMENTS; DIFFUSION OF WATER; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; EXECUTION TIME; FIBER TRACKING; FIBROUS TISSUE; GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNIT; MULTITHREADED; SPEED-UP FACTORS; SYNTHETIC AND REAL DATA;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS EQUIPMENT; FIBERS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; TISSUE; TRACKING (POSITION);

TENSORS;

EID: 81555221645     PISSN: 16874188     EISSN: 16874196     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2011/698908     Document Type: Article

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