Voreen: A Rapid-Prototyping Environment for Ray-Casting-Based Volume Visualizations

Jennis Meyer-Spradow

Timo Ropinski

Ulm University

Jörg Mensmann

Klaus Hinrichs

2009

Abstract

The amount of volume data requiring analysis is rising signifi cantly in many domains. For example, in medicine, computed tomogra- phy and magnetic resonance imaging have changed from seldom-applied special technologies to stan- dard diagnostic tools. Visualization of the acquired volume data is challenging. Scanners used in medi- cal research can create more than 1,000 slices per scan pass, which aren’t manageable with standard visualization techniques. Routine medical diagnos- tics also need new visualization techniques for fast, reliable analysis of the huge amounts of data. Im- portant information must be depicted concisely. To determine what information is important depends on what the medical question is and which scan- ning technologies are used—effective visualizations are usually specialized.

Bibtex

@article{meyer2009voreen,
	title={Voreen: A Rapid-Prototyping Environment for Ray-Casting-Based Volume Visualizations},
	author={Meyer-Spradow, Jennis and Ropinski, Timo and Mensmann, J{\"o}rg and Hinrichs, Klaus},
	year={2009},
	volume={29},
	pages={6--13},
	doi={10.1109/MCG.2009.130}
}