Patent ID: 6898302
Filing Date: 2005-05-24
Classification: G06T

Abstract:
1. An apparatus for facilitating the display and visually driven definition of tomographic image planes of a subject in three-dimensional (3-D) space, comprising: an imaging device for acquiring one or more plane images of the subject; a 3-D model device, in communication with the imaging device, for generating a 3-D model based upon the one or more plane images acquired from the imaging device; an input device for receiving operator input, wherein the operator input defines a pre-acquisition operator defined plane in addition to said one or more plane images acquired from the imaging device, and wherein a pre-acquisition scan model of the operator defined plane is incorporated into the 3-D model, and a display for presenting the 3-D model, wherein the 3-D model includes the operator defined plane, such that the operator can define an orientation of the operator defined plane in relation to one or more subject landmarks defined by the plane images acquired from the imaging device.