Spectral computed tomography (CT) is a novel medical imaging technique that involves simultaneously counting photons at several energy levels of the x-ray spectrum to obtain a single multi-variate dataset. Visualisation of such data poses significant challenges due its extremely large size and the need for interactive performance for scientific and medical end-users. This thesis explores the properties of spectral CT datasets and presents two algorithms for GPU-accelerated real-time rendering from compressed spectral CT data formats. In addition, we describe an optimised implementation of a volume raycasting algorithm on modern GPU hardware, tailored to the visualisation of spectral CT data.
Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:canterbury.ac.nz/oai:ir.canterbury.ac.nz:10092/7004 |
Date | January 2012 |
Creators | Chernoglazov, Alexander Igorevich |
Publisher | University of Canterbury. Computer Science and Software Engineering |
Source Sets | University of Canterbury |
Language | English |
Detected Language | English |
Type | Electronic thesis or dissertation, Text |
Rights | Copyright Alexander Igorevich Chernoglazov, http://library.canterbury.ac.nz/thesis/etheses_copyright.shtml |
Relation | NZCU |
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