Exposure render: An interactive photo-realistic volume rendering framework

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Kroes, Thomas ^a,b   Post, Frits H ^a   Botha, Charl P ^a,b  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER INTERFACE; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; DIRECT VOLUME RENDERING; ILLUMINATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING AND DISPLAY; LEARNING ALGORITHM; LIGHT QUALITY; LIGHT SCATTERING; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NOISE REDUCTION; STOCHASTIC MODEL; VOLUMETRY; ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; COMPUTER PROGRAM; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MONTE CARLO METHOD; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84863618158     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0038586     Document Type: Article

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