Toward Application of Virtual Reality to Visualization of DT-MRI Volumes

Abstract. We describe a virtual reality application for visualizing tensorvalued volume data acquired with diffusion tensor magnetic resonance imaging (DT-MRI). We have prototyped a virtual environment that displays geometric representations of the volumetric 2nd-order diffusion tensor data and are developing interaction and visualization techniques for two application areas: studying changes in white-matter structures after gamma-knife capsulotomy and pre-operative planning for brain tumor surgery.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2001
• Where: MICCAI
• Authors: Song Zhang, Çagatay Demiralp, M. DaSilva, Daniel F. Keefe, David H. Laidlaw, B. D. Greenberg, Peter J. Basser, Carlo Pierpaoli, E. A. Chiocca, Thomas S. Deisboeck
• Keywords: Diffusion Tensor, Diffusion Tensor Data, Medical Imaging, MICCAI 2001, Tensor Magnetic Resonance