Efficient CPU - based Direct Volume Rendering For CT - Angiography

This work reports the development of a CPU-based Direct Volume Rendering (DVR) software, which was implemented for medical visualisation in the field of CT-Angiography. An interactive DVR-plugin was finally added to the so called AngioVis-Toolbox, a software for post-processing and visualisation of CTA datasets. This work was focusing on finding adequate solutions to provide an interactive behaviour of the DVR-tool. This was accomplished by investigating several acceleration strategies, which were assessed with respect to their effectivity. Further this work sketches an alternative efficient solution for vessel-tree related focus and context visualisation referring to the so-called concept of ”VesselGlyph”, which was proposed before by members of the AngioVis-Project.