Construction of Volume Meshes from Computed Tomography Data

Author

Wang, Kezhou ; Denney, Thomas S., Jr. ; Morrison, Edward E. ; Vodyanoy, Vitaly J.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Auburn Univ., AL

fYear

2006

Firstpage

5168

Lastpage

5171

Abstract

In this paper, we present a new method, called marching volume elements (MVE), for automatically constructing a volume mesh from three-dimensional (3-D) high-resolution computed tomography (CT) data. The volume mesh generated by the MVE algorithm is suitable for computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations. The MVE algorithm is based on the marching cubes (MC) algorithm which is a surface generation algorithm for 3-D intensity data. The mesh created with the MVE algorithm is composed of pyramids, cubes and tetrahedrons with common faces that fit together to form a topologically consistent volume. We validate the MVE algorithm on a synthetic object and demonstrate it on CT scans of a human nasal cavity

Keywords

computational fluid dynamics; computerised tomography; medical image processing; mesh generation; computational fluid dynamics; human nasal cavity; marching cubes algorithm; marching volume elements; surface generation algorithm; three-dimensional high-resolution computed tomography; volume mesh construction; Anatomy; Biological system modeling; Blood flow; Computational fluid dynamics; Computational modeling; Computed tomography; Isosurfaces; Magnetic resonance imaging; Physiology; Solid modeling;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2005. IEEE-EMBS 2005. 27th Annual International Conference of the

Conference_Location

Shanghai

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8741-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.2005.1615641

Filename

1615641