Real-time stereographic rendering and display of medical images with programmable GPUs
✍ Scribed by Xiao Hui Wang; Walter F. Good
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2008
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 215 KB
- Volume
- 32
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0895-6111
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✦ Synopsis
The study was to explore the power and feasibility of using programmable graphics processing units (GPUs) for real-time rendering and displaying large 3D medical datasets for stereoscopic display workstation. Lung cancer screening CT images were used for developing GPU-based stereo rendering and displaying. The study was run on a personal computer with a 128 MB NVIDIA Quadro FX 1100 graphics card. The performance of rendering and displaying was measured and compared between GPU-based and central processing unit (CPU)-based programming. The results indicate that GPU-based programming was capable of rendering large 3D datasets at real-time interactive rates with stereographic displays.