Patent ID: 8241041

Claim:
A process for simulation or for digital synthesis of sonographic images, comprising: using a sonographic simulator comprised of a computer processing unit with memory and control means serving as a determined virtual sonographic probe, performing simulations by direct transformation in real time, or quasi-real time, of information contained in a 3D-scanographic image having organs contained in a scanographic volume of data, without delimitation or segmentation of the organs contained in the scanographic volume of data, the direct transformation according to one or more two-dimensional observation windows i) that can be modified in real time, or quasi-real time, in dimension, in position, in direction and in orientation, whose characteristics are based on the determined virtual sonographic probe and ii) that reproduce all effects of attenuation, reflection, refraction and dispersion and effects of adjusting a real sonographic image, wherein each sonographic image accumulates results of the performed simulations of the effects of attenuation, reflection, refraction and dispersion and the effects of adjusting the real sonographic image.