Title :
Visualization software for multiple data in radiation simulations
Author :
Akinori Kimura;Satoshi Tanaka;Takashi Sasaki
Author_Institution :
Department of Innovative Engineering, Ashikaga Institute of Technology, 268-1 Omae, Tochigi 326-8558 Japan
Abstract :
Radiation simulations have been widely used in high energy physics, nuclear physics, accelerator physics, medical science, and space science. The simulations generate particle trajectories and physical quantities in detectors, equipment or a human body. Therefore, visualization system has to process and draw complex and huge data in such simulations. We have been developing visualization software for multiple data generated by radiation simulations. Techniques of the computer visualization are introduced in explaining such multiple and complex data. The visualization software is capable of drawing multiple data such as particle trajectories, physical quantities, detectors, equipment, and a human body data in a simulation. In order to draw them, it has functions of rendering various dimensional data simultaneously, which are point, line, plane, and volume data. It is standalone software for Windows, MacOS X, and Linux.
Keywords :
"Data visualization","Software","Data models","DICOM","Computational modeling","Physics"
Conference_Titel :
Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference (NSS/MIC), 2014 IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/NSSMIC.2014.7431052