Virtual Endoscopy of the Colon
(Virtual Colonoscopy)
Contact:
Dirk Bartz,
Email: bartz 'at' gris.uni-tuebingen.de
Phone: +49.7071 / 29-76361
Based on a CAT-scan of the abdomen, virtual endoscopy methods were applied to examine
the inside of the human colon based on a 3D reconstruction of the inner surface
of the colon.
This project was a collaboration of
- Dirk Bartz (now
WSI/GRIS, Univ. of Tübingen),
- Lichan Hong, Shigeru Muraki, Taosong He, and Arie Kaufmann,
Center for Visual Computing, SUNY Stony Brook
- Mark Wax, Ajay Viswambharan, and Jerome Liang,
Department of Radiology, University Hospital, SUNY Stony Brook
Publication(s):
- Hong, L., Muraki, S., Kaufman, A., Bartz, D., and He, T.:
"
Virtual Voyage: Interactive Navigation in the Human Colon".
In Computer Graphics (Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH), Los Angeles, 1997.
(approx. 255KB)
- Bartz, D.:
"
Prototyping a Virtual Colonoscopy System".
Master's thesis, University of Erlangen-Nuremburg / SUNY Stony Brook, 1996.
(approx. 665KB)
Image Gallery
Images or animations from this website may only be used with the proper reference:
(C) 1998-2001, Dirk Bartz, WSI/GRIS, University of Tübingen
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Virtual (left) and optical (right) colonoscopy of a 8mm polyp. |
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Virtual (left) and optical (right) colonoscopy of a 4mm polyp. |
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Indirect (left) and direct (right) volume rendering enhancement of a polyp. |
Last modified: Tue Apr 29 17:45:18 CEST 2003