30-Issue 3

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    Anatomy-Guided Multi-Level Exploration of Blood Flow in Cerebral Aneurysms
    (The Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2011) Neugebauer, Mathias; Janiga, Gabor; Beuing, Oliver; Skalej, Martin; Preim, Bernhard; H. Hauser, H. Pfister, and J. J. van Wijk
    For cerebral aneurysms, the ostium, the area of inflow, is an important anatomic landmark, since it separates the pathological vessel deformation from the healthy parent vessel. A better understanding of the inflow characteristics, the flow inside the aneurysm and the overall change of pre- and post-aneurysm flow in the parent vessel provide insights for medical research and the development of new risk-reduced treatment options. We present an approach for a qualitative, visual flow exploration that incorporates the ostium and derived anatomical landmarks. It is divided into three scopes: a global scope for exploration of the in- and outflow, an ostium scope that provides characteristics of the flow profile close to the ostium and a local scope for a detailed exploration of the flow in the parent vessel and the aneurysm. The approach was applied to five representative datasets, including measured and simulated blood flow. Informal interviews with two board-certified radiologists confirmed the usefulness of the provided exploration tools and delivered input for the integration of the ostium-based flow analysis into the overall exploration workflow.
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    Depth of Field Effects for Interactive Direct Volume Rendering
    (The Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2011) Schott, Mathias; Grosset, A. V. Pascal; Martin, Tobias; Pegoraro, Vincent; Smith, Sean T.; Hansen, Charles D.; H. Hauser, H. Pfister, and J. J. van Wijk
    In this paper, a method for interactive direct volume rendering is proposed for computing depth of field effects, which previously were shown to aid observers in depth and size perception of synthetically generated images. The presented technique extends those benefits to volume rendering visualizations of 3D scalar fields from CT/MRI scanners or numerical simulations. It is based on incremental filtering and as such does not depend on any precomputation, thus allowing interactive explorations of volumetric data sets via on-the-fly editing of the shading model parameters or (multi-dimensional) transfer functions.