Patent ID: 7643670
Filing Date: 2010-01-05
Classification: G06T

Abstract:
1. A method of processing a time-sequence of separate image data sets each set comprising a plurality of image data items which each represent the location of an image pixel of the image subject according to a spatially fixed reference frame within which the subject is located, using a digital computing device to perform the steps of: (a) selecting a plurality of separate image pixel locations within said reference frame, comprising selecting a target image pixel location within said reference frame and subsequently selecting all image pixel locations which are intersected by a predefined first locus intersecting said target image pixel location; (b) selecting from each of a plurality of said separate image data sets those image data items which represent image pixels located at said plurality of separate image pixel locations; (c) generating a time-domain image according to said selected image data items wherein those image pixels of the time-domain image sharing a common image pixel location within said reference frame are arranged in said time-sequence in a line containing only those pixels; (d) selecting as a target one of said plurality of separate image data sets and selecting therefrom those image data items which represent image pixels located in a common first plane containing said first locus and generating a first spatial-domain image according to the data items so selected; and (e) generating a composite image containing said first spatial-domain image and said time-domain image aligned such that those pixels of the first spatial-domain image and of the time-domain image which share a common image pixel location within said reference frame are arranged in-line.