Ume-Lebern is a direct volume rendering tool developed in Managed DirectX. It was created by Matthias Maschek and Johannes Scharl in october/november 2006 for the VisLab course an the Vienna University of Technology.

Ume-Lebern renders raw data sets aquired from medical CT Scans.

Features:
- Rendering Slices in main axis directions
- Volume rendering raycasting techniques:
    - depth compositing
    - maximum intensity projection
    - advanced gradient dependent opacity computation
- perspective projection
- adaptive refinement
- interactive transfer function for color and opacity selection
- interactive, rotateable lightsource
- highly interactive by exploiting latest graphics hardware (Shader Model 3.0)