Article | REF: TE5955 V1

Virtual reality techniques in medicine

Author: Hervé DELINGETTE

Publication date: February 10, 2003

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2. Three-dimensional visualization

2.1 Visualization and medical imaging

Medical image acquisition techniques continue to undergo tremendous development in three main directions:

  • improved image resolution ;

  • better signal-to-noise ratio ;

  • increasingly specific imaging modalities.

This has several consequences for the practitioner:

  • Firstly, the amount of data to be analyzed tends to increase enormously (an MRI image can have over 100 slices, each slice having a resolution of 512 pixels by 512 pixels);

  • In addition, improved acquisition speed enables the creation of temporal sequences of images...

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