Patent ID: 6380958
Filing Date: 2002-04-30
Classification: G06T

Abstract:
A medical-technical system comprising:an imaging system operable according to a pre-operative imaging modality to obtain subject signals from an examination subject; a computing unit supplied with said subject signals for calculating a multi-dimensional image dataset from said subject signals; a display unit connected to said computing unit for displaying a virtual, multi-dimensional image produced in said computing unit from said multi-dimensional image dataset; a window generator connected to said computing unit for generating a controllable window displayed at said display unit; and a control unit connected to said computing unit for controlling production of said virtual, multi-dimensional image in said computing unit by including a virtual location of said window in said virtual, multi-dimensional image, said virtual location being controlled by said control unit so that said window displayed at said display unit contains a portion of said virtual, multi-dimensional image surrounded by said window at said virtual location.