T-flash: Tensor Visualization in Medical Studio

abstract Tensor valued data are frequently used in medical imaging. For a 3-dimensional second order tensor such data imply at least six degrees of freedom for each voxel. The operators ability to perceive this information is of outmost importance and in many cases a limiting factor for the interpretation of the data. In this paper we propose a decomposition of such tensor fields using the Tflash tensor glyphs that intuitively conveys important tensor features to a human observer. A matlab implementation for visualization of single tensors are described in detail and a VTK/ITK implementation for visualization of tensor fields have been developed as a Medical Studio component.

Authors and Affiliations

1. Linköping University, Sweden

   J. Wiklund

2. Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium

   V. Nicolas & P. Rondao

3. Linköping University, Sweden

   M. Andersson & H. Knutsson

Corresponding author

Correspondence to J. Wiklund .

Editors and Affiliations

1. Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros de Telecomunicacíon, Universidad de Valladolid, Campus Miguel Delibes, 47011 Valladolid, Spain

   Santiago Aja-Fernández  & Rodrigo de Luis García  & 

2. Dept. Computing, HongKong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong

   Dacheng Tao

3. University of London Birkbeck College School of Computer Science & Information Systems, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HX, UK

   Xuelong Li

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