Patent ID: 8077938

Claim:
A computer implemented method for diffusion tensor visualization comprising: receiving, by a computer, diffusion weighted image slice data; segmenting, by the computer, a diffusion tensor field from the diffusion weighted image slice data; determining, by the computer, a fractional anisotropy field and a principle diffusion direction field of the diffusion tensor field, wherein the diffusion tensor field is restricted to surface points of the image slice data; determining, by the computer, a surface rendering from the principle diffusion direction field; determining, by the computer, an oriented texture intensity encoding local vector field tangents in grey scale values for the surface points of the diffusion tensor field; determining, by the computer, a surface color for each of the surface points encoding a combination of the local vector field tangents of the oriented texture intensity, a color determined from the principle diffusion direction field, and a grey scale value of fractional anisotropy field at the surface points; and rendering, by the computer, the surface points having the corresponding surface colors.