Title :
Engineering workstations in 3D medical imaging
Author :
Deloid, Glen ; Gordon, Michael
Author_Institution :
3D Biomed. Imaging Inc., Prairie Village, KS, USA
Abstract :
An evaluation of a solid modeling engineering workstation as a platform for 2-D and 3-D medical imaging applications is presented. Reconstructions are performed on a Hewlett-Packard 9000 Model 370 TurboSRX computer system. Surface (polygonal) and volumetric (2-D projection) models are compared. It is shown that models of comparable quality can be developed and viewed for both approaches. The display performance is better for the polygonal surface model because it relies on the higher performance graphics subsystem for processing
Keywords :
biomedical equipment; medical diagnostic computing; workstations; 2D medical imaging; 3D medical imaging; Hewlett-Packard 9000 Model 370 TurboSRX computer system; display performance; graphics subsystem; medical workstation; polygonal surface model; solid modeling engineering workstation; Biomedical engineering; Biomedical imaging; Computed tomography; Graphics; Hardware; Image reconstruction; Medical diagnostic imaging; Rendering (computer graphics); Skull; Workstations;
Conference_Titel :
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 1989. Images of the Twenty-First Century., Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in
Conference_Location :
Seattle, WA
DOI :
10.1109/IEMBS.1989.95858
