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http://dx.doi.org/10.3795/KSME-A.2016.40.4.373

Method of Fast Interpolation of B-Spline Volumes for Reconstructing the Heterogeneous Model of Bones from CT Images  

Park, Jun Hong (Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Dong-A Univ.)
Kim, Byung Chul (Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Dong-A Univ.)
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Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A / v.40, no.4, 2016 , pp. 373-379 More about this Journal
Abstract
It is known that it is expedient to represent the distribution of the properties of a bone with complex heterogeneity as B-spline volume functions. For B-spline-based representation, the pixel values of CT images are interpolated by B-spline volume functions. However, the CT images of a bone are three-dimensional and very large, and hence a large amount of memory and long computation time for the interpolation are required. In this study, a method for resolving these problems is proposed. In the proposed method, the B-spline volume interpolation problem is simplified by using the uniformity of pixel spacing of the image and the properties of B-spline basis functions. This results in a reduction in computation time and the amount of memory used. The proposed method was implemented and it was verified that the computation time and the amount of memory used were reduced.
Keywords
B-spline Volume; CT Images; Heterogeneous Model; Interpolation; Reconstruction;
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