Patent ID: 6480732
Filing Date: 2002-11-12
Classification: A61B,G01S,G06T,Y10S

Abstract:
A medical image processing device for producing multiple three-dimensional images for the same region of a human body under examination as seen from a direction of line of sight and producing a composite image of the three-dimensional images, comprising:means for setting a plane section of the region of the human body under examination; first producing means responsive to the input of first volume data on the region of the human body under examination for producing a first three-dimensional image containing the plane section set by the setting means on the basis of the first volume data, said first producing means including depth map producing means for producing a depth map representing the plane section on the first volume data; second producing means responsive to the input of second volume data on the region of the human body under examination for producing a second three-dimensional image on the basis of the second volume data, wherein said second producing means trims a portion of the second volume data corresponding to space situated ahead of the plane section as seen from the direction of line of sight; and composition means for producing a composite image of the first three-dimensional image produced by the first producing means and the second three-dimensional image produced by the second producing means while referring to sad depth map.