Patent ID: 6205350
Filing Date: 2001-03-20
Classification: G06T

Abstract:
A medical diagnostic method for the two-dimensional imaging of structures present in an object comprising:acquiring a first data set (I(x,y,z)) from the object in order to define voxel image values for the voxels within a three-dimensional examination zone,generating a second data set (F(x,y,z)) from the first data set by a filtering operation which emphasizes the structures,determining voxels (x,y,z) which are projected onto the same pixel (u,v) in a two-dimensional image,selecting of at least one of these voxels (x,y,z) in dependence on its voxel image value (F(x,y,z)) in the second data set, andgenerating the two-dimensional image (B.sub.1 (u,v)), the image value for the pixel (u,v) being derived from the voxel image value (I(x,y,z)) of the selected voxel in the first data set.