Techniques for efficient, real-time, 3D visualization of multi-modality cardiac data using consumer graphics hardware
✍ Scribed by David Levin; Usaf Aladl; Guido Germano; Piotr Slomka
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2005
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 516 KB
- Volume
- 29
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0895-6111
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✦ Synopsis
We exploit consumer graphics hardware to perform real-time processing and visualization of high-resolution, 4D cardiac data. We have implemented real-time, realistic volume rendering, interactive 4D motion segmentation of cardiac data, visualization of multi-modality cardiac data and 3D display of multiple series cardiac MRI. We show that an ATI Radeon 9700 Pro can render a 512x512x128 cardiac Computed Tomography (CT) study at 0.9 to 60 frames per second (fps) depending on rendering parameters and that 4D motion based segmentation can be performed in real-time. We conclude that real-time rendering and processing of cardiac data can be implemented on consumer graphics cards.