Abstract
Interventional Radiology (IR) procedures are minimally invasive, targeted treatments performed using imaging for guidance. Needle puncture using ultrasound, x-ray, or computed tomography (CT) images is a core task in the radiology curriculum, and we are currently devel- oping a training simulator for this. One requirement is to include support for physically-based simulation of x-ray images from CT data sets. In this paper, we demonstrate how to exploit the capability of today's graphics cards to efficiently achieve this on the Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) and compare performance with an efficient software only implementation using the Central Processing Unit (CPU).
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Proceeding of Medicine Meets Virtual Reality 15 (MMVR15) |
| Place of Publication | Long Beach, California |
| Publisher | IOS Press |
| Pages | 479-481 |
| Number of pages | 3 |
| Volume | 125 |
| Publication status | Published - 1 Feb 2007 |
| Event | Medicine Meets Virtual Reality 15 - {Long Beach, United States Duration: 6 Feb 2007 → 7 Feb 2007 http://www.nextmed.com/ |
Publication series
| Name | Studies in Health Technology and Informatics |
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| Publisher | IOS Press |
Conference
| Conference | Medicine Meets Virtual Reality 15 |
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| Abbreviated title | VR 15 |
| Country/Territory | United States |
| City | {Long Beach |
| Period | 6/02/07 → 7/02/07 |
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Keywords
- X-ray simulation, GPU-based volume rendering, Interventional radiology