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A Survey of 3D Display Techniques to Render Medical Data

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3D Imaging in Medicine

Part of the book series: NATO ASI Series ((NATO ASI F,volume 60))

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This paper gives a brief survey of 3D display techniques which were developped during the last fifteen years to render medical data. These methods are classified in two families surface rendering and volume rendering. Emphasis is done on the two most recent methodologies which become widely used to render medical volumetric data sets: Ray-Tracing and Octree Encoding.

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    Jean-Louis Coatrieux

  2. INSERM U-335, Service de Neurochirurgie, Hôpital de Pontchaillou, 35033, Rennes cedex, France

    Christian Barillot

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Coatrieux, JL., Barillot, C. (1990). A Survey of 3D Display Techniques to Render Medical Data. In: Höhne, K.H., Fuchs, H., Pizer, S.M. (eds) 3D Imaging in Medicine. NATO ASI Series, vol 60. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-84211-5_11

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