Theory and Clinical Application of Volume Rendering in Medical Field

In general, three dimensional display has been fond to be more effective in the evaluation of bone or organs with complex structure.Multi CT or MRI images and stereoscopic X-ray images inherently contain three dimensional data. Although 3D display has a wide range of potential application, it is basically applicable to the fields of diagnosis and therapy.3D image display has been found of the location and structure of lesions and their surrounding structures both before and after therapeutic intervention.In this paper, volume rendering is introduced as one approach of recent typical three dimensional display algorithms. First, we classify categories of rendering and describe fundamental theory for volume rendering.Next, the volume rendering system, developed under Windows, is introduced. Each process step is shown as unique algorithm, easily and concretely.Last, clinical effectiveness is evaluated by corporation with remote clinical institutes using Internet system.