PREPROCESSING AND REAL TIME VISUALIZATION OF CT AND MRI DATA

The visualization of CT and MRI data has become a large part of scientific computer graphics during the last twenty years. These growing technologies are essential to gain insight to enormous amounts of information, to get better diagnosis. During the last years several different visualization approaches have been developed. In this paper we summarize the benefits and drawbacks of widely used methods, surface rendering and various types of volume rendering. Our aim is to determinate which method is the most effective in different type of situations.