Title :
Distributed parallel volume rendering applied to virtual endoscopy
Author :
Pelizzari, C.A. ; Grzeszczuk, R.P. ; Johnson, L.S. ; Ryan, M.J.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Radiat. Oncology, Chicago Univ., IL, USA
Abstract :
Improved realism in virtual endoscopy may be achieved by using volume rather than surface rendering, which preserves grayscale information and fine detail from the original CT dataset. Since volume rendering is computationally intensive, parallelization of the calculations is attractive. A distributed parallel rendering algorithm has been applied to calculation of volume rendered cine sequences in a few seconds per frame when using a modest number of readily available workstations
Keywords :
computerised tomography; image representation; image sequences; medical image processing; parallel algorithms; rendering (computer graphics); surgery; virtual reality; CT dataset; distributed parallel volume rendering; fine detail; grayscale information; improved realism; parallelization; virtual endoscopic surgery; virtual endoscopy; volume rendered cine sequences; workstations; Computed tomography; Displays; Endoscopes; Graphics; Image reconstruction; Neurosurgery; Radiology; Rendering (computer graphics); Tiles; Visualization;
Conference_Titel :
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 1995., IEEE 17th Annual Conference
Conference_Location :
Montreal, Que.
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-2475-7
DOI :
10.1109/IEMBS.1995.575156
