Effects of stereo and screen size on the legibility of three-dimensional streamtube visualization

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 2130-2139

  Chen, Jian ^a   Cai, Haipeng ^b   Auchus, Alexander P ^c   Laidlaw, David H ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

diffusion tensor MRI; Display characteristics; virtual environment

Indexed keywords

BRAIN LESIONS; COMPLETION TIME; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; DIFFUSION TENSOR MRI; DISPLAY SIZE; FIBER TRACTS; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; PERFORMANCE GAIN; SCREEN SIZES; STREAMTUBES; TASK COMPLETION TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE; USER STUDY; VISUAL REASONING; VISUALIZATION APPLICATION;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; VIRTUAL REALITY; VISUALIZATION;

THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

ADULT; COMPUTER INTERFACE; DEVICES; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PHYSICIAN; PROCEDURES; TASK PERFORMANCE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ADULT; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; PHYSICIANS; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 84867497339     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2012.216     Document Type: Article

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