List of Figures

1. Comparison of surface and volume rendering
2. Illustration of raycasting
3. Illustration of splatting
4. Illustration of the shear-warp mechanism
5. Volume rendering using 2D textures
6. Volume rendering using 3D textures
7. Comparison of volume rendering algorithms
8. Four versions of the volume rendering pipeline
9. Comparison of classification and shading orders
10. Two dimensional sampling in the space and frequency domain
11. Example of segmented dataset
12. Parameters of the Phong illumination model
13. Visual comparison of specular highlights obtained with Phong's and Schlick's approach
14. Comparison of Phong's and Schlick's approach for specular highlight simulation
15. Linear and bricked volume layouts
16. Access patterns during resampling and gradient computation
17. Blockwise raycasting scheme
18. Front-to-back orders of blocks.
19. Concurrency problem in parallel block processing
20. Comparison of conventional CPU and Hyper-Threading CPU
21. Simultaneous Multithreading enabled raycasting
22. Redundant gradient computation at grid positions
23. Block template generation
24. Block and octree projection
25. Octree classification of a block
26. Example of interaction modes
27. Architecture overview
28. Block-based raycasting speedup compared to raycasting on a linear volume layout
29. Symmetric Multiprocessing and Simultaneous Multithreading speedups
30. Simultaneous Multithreading speedup for different block sizes
31. Comparison of different gradient caching strategies
32. Acceleration techniques tested on different datasets
33. Comparison of reconstruction methods using the Marschner-Lobb test signal
34. Comparison of gradient reconstruction methods
35. CT scan of colon
36. CT scan of heart
37. CT scan of lumbar spine
38. CT scan of abdomen