Cinematic Rendering - an Alternative to Volume Rendering for 3D Computed Tomography Imaging

Overview

Journal Insights Imaging

Publisher Springer

Specialty Radiology

Date 2016 Sep 16

PMID 27628743

Citations 48

Authors

Evelyn Dappa

Kai Higashigaito

Jurgen Fornaro

Sebastian Leschka

Simon Wildermuth

Hatem Alkadhi

Affiliations

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Abstract

Teaching Points: • Cinematic rendering is a novel post-processing technique for 3D visualization of CT image data. • Compared to volume rendering, CR results in a more photo-realistic representation of anatomy. • Similar to volume rendering, CR provides best image quality of high density structures.

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