3D REAL-TIME PARALLEL VOLUME RENDERING USING NVIDIA CUDA FOR MEDICAL IMAGING

The medical industry is always looking for ways to allow faster and more accurate diagnosis, without the need to expose patients to unnecessary painful and invasive procedures. Faster diagnosis can help hospitals and clinics keep healthcare costs down, while more accurate diagnosis and less stressful procedures can help attract more patients for checkups and investigations. All this can be done nowadays with a relative low cost and without the need for delicate and expensive equipment. Using the new hardware architecture from NVIDIA (CUDA Compute Unified Device Architecture) every doctor can now use his own computer to conduct those delicate investigations.