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Surface Rendering

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3D Image Processing

Part of the book series: Medical Radiology ((Med Radiol Diagn Imaging))

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Surface rendering represents a visualization technique which is well established for three-dimensional imaging of sectional image data. This chapter describes image acquisition and data preparation for surface shaded rendering. Additionally the basics of the computational approach are described.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Radiology, University Hospital Regensburg, Franz-Josef-Strauss Allee 11, 93053, Regensburg, Germany

    Andreas G. Schreyer MD

  2. Surgical Planning Laboratory, Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital Boston, 75 Francis Street, Boston, MA, 02115, USA

    Simon K. Warfield PhD

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  1. Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology Department of Oncology, Transplants, and Advanced Technologies in Medicine, University of Pisa, Via Roma 67, 56100, Pisa, Italy

    Davide Caramella MD  & Carlo Bartolozzi MD  & 

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Schreyer, A.G., Warfield, S.K. (2002). Surface Rendering. In: Caramella, D., Bartolozzi, C. (eds) 3D Image Processing. Medical Radiology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-59438-0_4

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  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-59438-0_4

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