Tensor splats

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5295, Issue , 2004, Pages 151-162

  Benger, Werner ^a,b   Hege, Hans Christian ^a  

^a ZUSE INSTITUTE BERLIN   (Germany)

^b ALBERT EINSTEIN INSTITUT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Diffusion tensor images; General relativity; Metric; Splatting; Tensor field visualization; Volume rendering

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; COLOR; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; TENSORS;

DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGES; GENERAL RELATIVITY; SPLATTING; TENSOR FIELD VISUALIZATION; VOLUME RENDERING;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 8844263712     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.549300     Document Type: Conference Paper

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