Patent ID: 7242402
Filing Date: 2007-07-10
Classification: G06T

Abstract:
1. A method of visualization of a three-dimensional image representative of a three-dimensional imaged object, the method comprising: displaying the three-dimensional image in a display window; selecting a point on an element of interest present in a part of the three-dimensional image, and subsequent thereto, moving the three-dimensional image within the display window in response to the selected point on the element of interest; creating in the part of the three-dimensional image a finite volume whose dimensions are predetermined and whose center is the point on the element of interest present in the part of the three-dimensional image, an outside dimension of the finite volume being less than a width of the display window; making an interactive intersection between the predetermined finite volume and the part of the three-dimensional image to isolate the element of interest in the three-dimensional image; and displaying in the display window only the part of the three-dimensional image contained in the predetermined finite volume.