Visualization in 3D Medical Imaging

As in many other medical areas, computer-based systems have appeared as extremely useful tools for clinicians. Over the last two decades computer technology has been applied in the medical field not only for regular office management, but also in all phases of treatment, that is, diagnosis, treatment planning and treatment. Since “visualization” has become essential in medical field, especially in the analysis of complex situations, this report is dedicated to it. In this report several significant visualization techniques for medical data are presented. The overall structure of this report as follows. After the first “Introduction” section, the second section discusses two of the main medical imaging techniques, Computed Tomography (CT) and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), to gain a brief knowledge about the sources of 3D medical images. The heart of this report comes in the third section with most common visualization techniques in medical field. Some devices for interaction with computer is briefly analysed in section 4. Nowadays, highly structured software tools and packages as well as the graphics hardware help us to visualize and analyse medical data attractively and effectively; hence, those are briefly discussed in section 5 and 6, respectively. The summary and conclusion come in the, final section, section 7.