3-D VISUALIZATION IN MEDICINE: AN OVERVIEW
Athanasios M. Demiris, Achim Mayer, Meinzer Hans Peter · Studies in health technology and informatics · 1997
Since the mid seventies many researchers are dealing with the problem of non invasive diagnosis. One way of doing this are the imaging techniques used in almost every clinical environment, e.g. classic X-rays, ultrasound, Computed Tomography (CT), Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MR), or more experimental techniques like PET or SPECT. The large amount of information contained in such images produced with imaging devices of the above categories is not easy to analyse. Hence, the images obtained have to be processed in a way that will yield 3-D-looking images similar to those in anatomical atlases. This chapter aims at the presentation of the most important methods in medical 3-D-visualization and some representative work for each method discussed.