Patent ID: 9704284
Date: 2017-07-11
CPC Classifications: A61B,G06T,G16H

Claim:
1. A medical image diagnostic apparatus, comprising: a setting unit that sets a viewpoint position and a calculation start position different from the viewpoint position on an image of a subject; a rendering unit that performs rendering processing on, as a target, a range ahead of the calculation start position, in a direction toward the calculation start position from the viewpoint position, based on volume data of the subject, so as to generate a rendering image, wherein the rendering unit sets a clip plane to a position of a straight line that is perpendicular to a vector from the viewpoint position to the calculation start position and that passes through the calculation start position, and starts calculation of the rendering processing in a direction of the vector from the set clip plane based on the volume data; and a display controller that causes the rendering image to be displayed on a display.