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 A Refined Data Addressing and Processing Scheme to Accelerate Volume Raycasting

by Sören Grimm, Stefan Bruckner, Armin Kanitsar, Eduard Gröller

Abstract
Most volume rendering systems based on CPU volume raycasting still suffer from inefficient CPU utilization and high memory usage. To target these issues we present a new technique for efficient data addressing. Furthermore, we introduce a new processing scheme for volume raycasting which exploits thread-level parallelism - a technology now supported by commodity computer architectures.

Keywords: Volume Raycasting, Bricking, Parallel Computing, Thread-level parallelism.

Sören Grimm, Stefan Bruckner, Armin Kanitsar, Eduard Gröller, "A Refined Data Addressing and Processing Scheme to Accelerate Volume Raycasting", Computer & Graphics, vol. 28, no. 5, 2004
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A Refined Data Addressing and Processing Scheme to Accelerate Volume Raycasting
Sören Grimm, Stefan Bruckner, Armin Kanitsar, Eduard Gröller
Computers and Graphics 2004, vol. 28(5), pp. 719-729

BibTeX Entry
@Article{GRIMM:2004:RAP,
  author =      {S\"oren Grimm and Stefan Bruckner and Armin Kanitsar and Eduard Gr\"oller,
  title =       {A Refined Data Addressing and Processing Scheme to Accelerate Volume Raycasting},
  journal =      "Computers and Graphics",
  pages =        "719--729",
  year =         "2004",
  volume =       "28",
  number =       "5",
} 

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