Volume visualization: a technical overview with a focus on medical applications

Q Zhang, R Eagleson, TM Peters - Journal of digital imaging, 2011 - Springer
With the increasing availability of high-resolution isotropic three-or four-dimensional medical
datasets from sources such as magnetic resonance imaging, computed tomography, and …

Real-time volume graphics

K Engel, M Hadwiger, JM Kniss, AE Lefohn… - ACM Siggraph 2004 …, 2004 - dl.acm.org
The tremendous evolution of programmable graphics hardware has made high-quality real-
time volume graphics a reality. In addition to the traditional application of rendering volume …

High-quality pre-integrated volume rendering using hardware-accelerated pixel shading

K Engel, M Kraus, T Ertl - Proceedings of the ACM SIGGRAPH …, 2001 - dl.acm.org
We introduce a novel texture-based volume rendering approach that achieves the image
quality of the best post-shading approaches with far less slices. It is suitable for new flexible …

[图书][B] Computer science handbook

AB Tucker - 2004 - taylorfrancis.com
When you think about how far and fast computer science has progressed in recent years, it's
not hard to conclude that a seven-year old handbook may fall a little short of the kind of …

[PDF][PDF] Smart hardware-accelerated volume rendering

S Roettger, S Guthe, D Weiskopf, T Ertl, W Strasser - VisSym, 2003 - researchgate.net
For volume rendering of regular grids the display of view-plane aligned slices has proven to
yield both good quality and performance. In this paper we demonstrate how to merge the …

Hardware-based ray casting for tetrahedral meshes

M Weiler, M Kraus, M Merz, T Ertl - IEEE Visualization, 2003 …, 2003 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present the first implementation of a volume ray casting algorithm for tetrahedral meshes
running on off-the-shelf programmable graphics hardware. Our implementation avoids the …

A survey of GPU-based volume rendering of unstructured grids

CT Silva, JLD Comba, SP Callahan… - … Alegre, RS. Vol. 12, n. 2 …, 2005 - lume.ufrgs.br
Real-time rendering of large unstructured meshes is a major research goal in the scientific
visualization community. While, for regular grids, texture-based techniques are well-suited …

Overview of volume rendering.

AE Kaufman, K Mueller - The visualization handbook, 2005 - books.google.com
Volume visualization is a method of extracting meaningful information from volumetric data
using interactive graphics and imaging. It is concerned with volume data representation …

[PDF][PDF] Feature extraction and visualisation of flow fields.

FH Post, B Vrolijk, H Hauser, RS Laramee… - Eurographics (State of …, 2002 - academia.edu
Flow visualisation has already been a very attractive part of visualisation research for a long
time. Usually very large data sets need to be processed, which often consist of multivariate …

Hardware-based view-independent cell projection

M Weiler, M Kraus, M Merz, T Ertl - IEEE Transactions on …, 2003 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present two implementations of a view-independent cell projection algorithm for off-the-
shelf programmable graphics hardware. Both implementations perform all computations for …