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Efficiently using graphics hardware in volume rendering applications

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Proceedings of the 25th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques table of contents

Pages: 169 - 177

Year of Publication: 1998

ISBN:0-89791-999-8

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Rüdiger Westermann	Univ. Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
Thomas Ertl	Univ. Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany

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SIGGRAPH: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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