Interactive visualization of 3D-vector fields using illuminated stream lines
Proceedings of the 7th conference on Visualization '96
Oriented tensor reconstruction: tracing neural pathways from diffusion tensor MRI
Proceedings of the conference on Visualization '02
Strategies for Direct Volume Rendering of Diffusion Tensor Fields
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
Visualizing Diffusion Tensor MR Images Using Streamtubes and Streamsurfaces
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
OpenGL(R) Shading Language
Strategies for interactive exploration of 3D flow using evenly-spaced illuminated streamlines
SCCG '03 Proceedings of the 19th spring conference on Computer graphics
Exploration of the Brain's White Matter Pathways with Dynamic Queries
VIS '04 Proceedings of the conference on Visualization '04
Virtual Tubelets-efficiently visualizing large amounts of particle trajectories
Computers and Graphics
VISSYM'04 Proceedings of the Sixth Joint Eurographics - IEEE TCVG conference on Visualization
DTI visualization with streamsurfaces and evenly-spaced volume seeding
VISSYM'04 Proceedings of the Sixth Joint Eurographics - IEEE TCVG conference on Visualization
Visualizing Whole-Brain DTI Tractography with GPU-based Tuboids and LoD Management
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
Stochastic DT-MRI Connectivity Mapping on the GPU
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
Visualizing white matter fiber tracts with optimally fitted curved dissection surfaces
EG VCBM'10 Proceedings of the 2nd Eurographics conference on Visual Computing for Biology and Medicine
Abstractive representation and exploration of hierarchically clustered diffusion tensor fiber tracts
EuroVis'08 Proceedings of the 10th Joint Eurographics / IEEE - VGTC conference on Visualization
Effective techniques to visualize filament-surface relationships
EuroVis'10 Proceedings of the 12th Eurographics / IEEE - VGTC conference on Visualization
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Diffusion tensor imaging is of high value in neurosurgery, providing information about the location of white matter tracts in the human brain. For their reconstruction, streamline techniques commonly referred to as fiber tracking model the underlying fiber structures and have therefore gained interest. To meet the requirements of surgical planning and to overcome the visual limitations of line representations, a new real-time visualization approach of high visual quality is introduced. For this purpose, textured triangle strips and point sprites are combined in a hybrid strategy employing GPU programming. The triangle strips follow the fiber streamlines and are textured to obtain a tube-like appearance. A vertex program is used to orient the triangle strips towards the camera. In order to avoid triangle flipping in case of fiber segments where the viewing and segment direction are parallel, a correct visual representation is achieved in these areas by chains of point sprites. As a result, a high quality visualization similar to tubes is provided allowing for interactive multimodal inspection. Overall, the presented approach is faster than existing techniques of similar visualization quality and at the same time allows for real-time rendering of dense bundles encompassing a high number of fibers, which is of high importance for diagnosis and surgical planning.