Philips Medical Systems, X-Ray Predevelopment

Multi-view lenticular displays offer stereoscopic views, without using additional glasses. In this article a method for hardware accelerated volume rendering of medical data sets to such displays is proposed. Though the generation of multi-view stereoscopic images of large volume rendered medical data sets demands an enormous amount of calculations, the GPU-based implementation offers interactive manipulation throughout. It is shown how the multi-view images are obtained from different focal spot positions, and how they are composed into the final bitmap that is displayed on the lenticular screen. Figure 1: A Direct Volume Rendered image