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Professor Storti is the co-director of the Solheim Rapid Manufacturing Lab. His research focuses primarily on 3D printing and novel approaches to geometric design. He has significant experience in creating new material systems for 3D printing and maintains a strong interest in new solid modeling techniques that are specifically suited for compatibility with 3D medical image stacks. His ongoing research program collaborates closely with colleagues at the Seattle VA Hospital and the UW Medical School’s departments of Radiology and Orthopaedics, emphasizing imaging applications in biomechanical contexts. His work relies heavily on GPU-based parallel computing to facilitate real-time interaction models based on image stacks. Within his instructional efforts, Dr. Storti extensively utilizes CUDA, emphasizing its application in the realm of 3D texels. He has also released a CUDA-based application known as DRRACC, a GPU-accelerated software toolkit designed for the efficient computation of digitally reconstructed radiographs (DRRs).
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