Title :
Interactive exploration of extra- and interacranial blood vessels
Author :
Bartz, Dirk ; Strasser, W. ; Skalej, Martin ; Welte, Dorothea
Author_Institution :
Wilhelm-Schickard-Inst. fur Inf., Tubingen Univ., Germany
Abstract :
We present a system for interactive explorations of extra- and intracranial blood vessels. Starting with a stack of images from 3D angiography, we use virtual clips to limit the segmentation of the vessel tree to the parts the neuroradiologists are interested in. Furthermore, methods of interactive virtual endoscopy are applied in order to provide an interior view of the blood vessels.
Keywords :
blood vessels; diagnostic radiography; image segmentation; medical image processing; rendering (computer graphics); virtual reality; 3D angiography; extracranial blood vessels; image segmentation; interacranial blood vessels; interactive explorations; interactive virtual endoscopy; neuroradiology; virtual clips; virtual reality; Angiography; Animation; Biomedical imaging; Blood vessels; Endoscopes; Graphics; Hardware; Image segmentation; Isosurfaces; Rendering (computer graphics);
Conference_Titel :
Visualization '99. Proceedings
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA, USA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-5897-X
DOI :
10.1109/VISUAL.1999.809912
