Interactive volume rendering of multimodality 4D cardiac data with the use of consumer graphics hardware
Frank Enders, Magnus Strengert, Sabine Iserhardt-Bauer, Usaf E. Aladl, Piotr J. Slomka · Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE · 2003
Interactive multimodality 4D volume rendering of cardiac images is challenging due to several factors. Animated rendering of fused volumes with multiple lookup tables (LUT) and interactive adjustments of relative volume positions and orientations must be performed in real time. In addition it is difficult to visualize the myocardium separated from the surrounding tissue on some modalities, such as MRI. In this work we propose to use software techniques combined with hardware capabilities of modern consumer video cards for real-time visualization of time-varying multimodality fused cardiac volumes for diagnostic purposes.