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The last few years have witnessed extraordinary advances in medical imaging. The new digital methods, such as CT or MRI, share the common characteristic of providing three-dimensional volume data. The urgent need for efficient techniques for visualizing volume data has recently been recognized not only in diagnostic medicine, but also in computer-assisted surgery and radiation-therapy planning. In recent years, new display technologies have emerged, in which depth perception has been improved significantly, because it relies in principle on physiological depth cues. This paper presents the state-of-theart is true 3D displays (with a special emphasis placed on equipment that has reached relative maturity) and a discussion of their most important advantages and disadvantages with respect to visualizing medical data.
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Owczarczyk, J., Owczarczyk, B. Evaluation of true 3 D display systems for visualizing medical volume data. The Visual Computer 6, 219–226 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02341046
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