Volumetric Rendering

  • Authors:
  • Derek R. Ney;Elliot K. Fishman;Donna Magid;Robert A. Drebin

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications
  • Year:
  • 1990
  • Volume rendering

    SIGGRAPH '88 Proceedings of the 15th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques

  • Compositing digital images

    SIGGRAPH '84 Proceedings of the 11th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques

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Abstract

The methods and algorithms used for volumetric rendering of medical computed tomography data are described in detail. Volumetric rendering allows for the use of a mixture paradigm for representation of the volume to be rendered and uses mathematical techniques to reduce or eliminate aliasing. A step-by-step description of the process used to generate two types of images (unshaded and shaded surfaces) is included. The technique generates three-dimensional images of computed tomography data with unprecedented image quality. Images generated with this technique are in routine clinical use.