Patent ID: 8908938
Filing Date: 2014-12-09
Classification: A61B

Abstract:
1. A method for providing a segmented volume data record for a virtual colonoscopy, the volume data record including image information relating to the intestines of a creature, the method comprising: emitting beams from an observer position in the intestines; labeling, by one or more processors, the intestines by using a first and a second contrast agent, voxels representing stool remains being labeled by the second contrast agent; segmenting, by the one or more processors, voxels representing intestinal tissue, the segmentation taking place in a volume data record recorded of the body region of the creature including the intestines, labeled by the first and the second contrast agent; and displaying, by the one or more processors, without digital subtraction of the stool remains labeled by the second contrast agent, at least sections of an intestinal wall of the intestines on the basis of the segmentation in the virtual colonoscopy, when the sections of the intestinal wall are, in the segmented volume data record, covered by stool remains labeled by the second contrast agent, the displaying including, reconstructing at least one view of an interior of the intestines using a surface-shaded display in the virtual colonoscopy based on the segmented volume data record, the reconstructing beginning from the observer position in the intestines and including,