Patent ID: 7339587

Claim:
A method for medical imaging and image processing in the form of a perspective volumetric display, the method comprising: providing a multiplicity of temporally graded 3D data volumes at a multiplicity of instants (t 1 , t 2 , t 1 ), a 3D data volume, respectively being assigned to an instant; prescribing a spatially absolutely fixed first viewer position within an evaluation volume for at least one 3D data volume at a first instant, said evaluation volume is a moving body part which varies its absolute spatial position in time; determining a temporal correlation between the spatially absolutely fixed first viewer position and the evaluation volume for at least one further 3D data volume at at least one second instant; determining a second viewer position, spatially relatively fixed in relation to the evaluation volume, within the evaluation volume for the at least one further 3D data volume at the at least one second instant; and displaying the interior of the evaluation volume from a perspective of the spatially relatively fixed second viewer position for the at least one further 3D data volume at the at least one second instant.