Patent ID: 8126226
Filing Date: 2012-02-28
Classification: G06T

Abstract:
1. A method to illustrate image data of an imaged subject as acquired by a radiological imaging system, the steps comprising: acquiring a plurality of two-dimensional, radiography images of an imaged subject; generating a three-dimensional reconstructed volume from the plurality of two-dimensional, radiography images; navigating through the three-dimensional reconstructed volume, the navigating step including receiving an instruction from an input device that identifies a location of a volume portion of clinical interest within the three-dimensional reconstructed volume; calculating and generating an additional view of the volume portion of the three-dimensional reconstructed volume identified in the navigation step; and reporting the additional view or at least one parameter to calculate and generate the additional view, wherein the step of calculating and generating the additional view of the volume portion includes calculating a slab or a three-dimensional display of the volume portion dependent on one of a maximum value, a minimum value, an average value or any mathematical combination of intensity levels for a plurality of pixel or volume elements located along a direction parallel to a ray path extending from a virtual source to a virtual detector.