title: [A hybrid volume rendering method using general hardware].
abstract: In order to improve the effect and efficiency of the reconstructed image after hybrid volume rendering of different kinds of volume data from medical sequential slices or polygonal models, we propose a hybrid volume rendering method based on Shear-Warp with economical hardware. First, the hybrid volume data are pre-processed by Z-Buffer method and RLE (Run-Length Encoded) data structure. Then, during the process of compositing intermediate image, a resampling method based on the dual-interpolation and the intermediate slice interpolation methods is used to improve the efficiency and the effect. Finally, the reconstructed image is rendered by the texture-mapping technology of OpenGL. Experiments demonstrate the good performance of the proposed method.
authors.affiliation: College of Automation Science and Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, 510640, China. binleemmboy@yahoo.com.cn
authors.forename: Bin
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Lianfang
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Tian
authors.forename: Ping
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Zongyuan
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Mao
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D003196:Computer Graphics; D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted / Q000379:methods; D008488:Medical Illustration; D008953:Models, Anatomic; D019047:Phantoms, Imaging