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= Breakout session on Volume Rendering =
Goal of this session is to compare and contrast various volume rendering approaches in the context of clinical application scenarios.  This will mainly be done through hands-on demos and group discussion.

* When: 3pm Thursday June 24
* Where: at a projector in the project week room.

Systems to examine:
* VTK GPU Raycasting in slicer 3.6 (GLSL)
* NCI GPU Raycasting in slicer 3.6 (GLSL)
* Microsoft research volume rendering demo (CUDA, closed source)
* Others?

Scenarios:
* Virtual Colonoscopy
* PET-CT
* Microscopy

== Preparation ==
Earlier in the project week we will work on getting the same datasets loaded on the various systems.

== Participants ==
Please add your name to the list if you are interested in participating in this session
# Steve Pieper, Isomics, Inc.
# Julien Finet, Kitware Inc.
# Alex Yarmarkovich, Isomics, Inc.
# Yanling Liu, SAIC-Frederick/NCI-Frederick.
# Jim Barabas, MIT Media Lab.
# Arnaud Gelas, Harvard Medical School
# Nicolas Rannou, Harvard Medical School
# Andriy Fedorov, SPL
# Curtis Lisle, KnowledgeVis
# Nicholas Herlambang, AZE, Ltd.
# Tammy Riklin Raviv, CSAIL, MIT