Interactive 3D volume rendering in biomedical publications

Interactive 3D volume rendering in biomedical publications.

We present three examples of interactive, 3D volume rendering models embedded in a PDF publication. The examples are drawn from three different morphological methods - confocal microscopy, serial sectioning and microcomputed tomography - performed on members of the phylum Mollusca. A description of the entire technical procedure from specimen preparation to embedding of the visual model includi...

Incremental Volume Rendering Algorithm for Interactive 3D Ultrasound Imaging

Interactive Maximum Projection Volume Rendering

Maximum projection is a volume rendering technique that, for each pixel, finds the maximum intensity along a projector. For certain important classes of data, this is an approximation to summation rendering which produces superior visualizations. In this paper we will show how maximum projection rendering with additional depth cues can be implemented using simple affine transformations in objec...

Interactive Distributed Translucent Volume Rendering

Translucent volume rendering is a robust and efficient direct volume-rendering technique for capturing optical effects, like subsurface scattering, translucency, and volumetric shadows. However, due to the limited computing and memory resources of the recent consumer graphics hardware, high-resolution volume data can still hardly be interactively visualized by this method. In this paper we pres...

CellFast: Interactive Unstructured Volume Rendering

Shirley and Tuchman’s projected tetrahedra approach is a fast algorithm for unstructured volume visualization, because it generates triangles that may be rendered by hardware acceleration. In this paper, I explore optimizations using OpenGL triangle fans, customized quicksort, memory organization for cache efficiency, display lists, and tetrahedral culling. The optimizations improve the perform...