Patent ID: 11869154
Assignee: SIEMENS HEALTHCARE LIMITED
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G  A | IPC A  G

Claim 0:
1. A method for visualizing a surface curvature of a 3D-object, the method comprising:
acquiring a dataset generated via an imaging modality, the dataset describing a 3D-shape of the 3D-object;
reconstructing a virtual representation of the 3D-object from the dataset;
displaying a flat 2D-grid of intersecting grid lines over the virtual representation of the 3D-object;
generating an adapted grid of intersecting grid lines by adapting the flat 2D-grid to follow a surface curvature of the virtual representation of the 3D-object, wherein
a distance along a grid line between two neighboring intersections on the adapted grid is equal to a distance along a grid line between two neighboring sections of the flat 2D-grid, and
the two neighboring intersections on the adapted grid correspond to the two neighboring intersections on the flat 2D-grid; and

outputting the adapted grid for display over at least one of the 3D-object or a virtual model of the 3D-object.