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Image quality improvements in volume rendering

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This paper presents some methods to improve the image quality obtained with volume rendering. By computing the opacity, color and gradient of each sample point directly at the sample position, the image quality has improved over methods which compute these values at the voxel positions. A new method for calculating the gradient is presented. These improvements result in small details becoming clearly visible. It also allows high zoom rates without generating blurry images. The opacity is corrected for the sample rate, allowing a consistent translucency setting.

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  1. Philips Medical Systems Nederland B.V., Best, The Netherlands

    Jeroen Terwisscha van Scheltinga & Steven Lobregt

  2. University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands

    Marco Bosma & Jaap Smit

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  1. Jeroen Terwisscha van Scheltinga
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van Scheltinga, J.T., Bosma, M., Smit, J., Lobregt, S. (1996). Image quality improvements in volume rendering. In: Höhne, K.H., Kikinis, R. (eds) Visualization in Biomedical Computing. VBC 1996. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1131. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0046940

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