Acknowledgements

This work has been funded by:

• the FWF (http://www.fwf.ac.at/) as part of project P-12811/INF (``BandViz'', http://bandviz.cg.tuwien.ac.at/)
• the VisMed project (http://www.vismed.at) which is supported by Tiani Medgraph, Brunn/Geb., Austria, http://www.tiani.com/, and the FFF (http://www.fff.co.at/), Austria.
• the Kplus research program by the Austrian government as part of the basic research on visualization ( http://www.vrvis.at/vis/) in the VRVis Research Center, Vienna, Austria.

The data sets depicted in figures 4.8a, 4.11, and 4.17 are available from the United Medical and Dental Schools (UMDS) Image Processing Group in London
http://www-ipg.umds.ac.uk/archive/heads.html.

The head depicted in figure 4.24 is obtained from the Chapel Hill Volume Rendering Test Dataset which is provided courtesy of North Carolina Memorial Hospital.

The remaining medical data sets are courtesy of Tiani Medgraph, Brunn/Geb., Austria, http://www.tiani.com/ and their clinical partners.

The author wants to thank Meister Eduard Gröller, Helwig Löffelmann (66%), Helwig Hauser (34%) (he (or they?) happened to change name a year ago). The people at the Institute of Computer Graphics (and Algorithms) and the VRVis, i.e., Balázs, Jiri, Anna, Andreas, Helmut, Markus, Thomas, Rainer (for discussions and beer), and the team at Tiani Medgraph. Gian-Italo Bischi, for the highly interesting cooperation on dynamical systems.

Karolina, for tolerating long nights of paper-writing. My parents, for buying me a Commodore 64 a long time ago.

If you feel that I forgot to mention you, drop me a message. I will mention you in my next life.

mailto:mroz@cg.tuwien.ac.at.