Patent ID: 8922549

Claim:
A method for the progressive loading of medical, multidimensional images into a medical application, the method comprising steps of: a) loading a first number n of image sets with an image set size k y , the k y images of which are distributed in a regular manner over a volume, which is to be loaded in its entirety as a result; b) loading a number n x of image sets starting with a factor x=1, with the images loaded in total in the preceding and current steps being distributed in a regular manner over the volume; c) determining a camera distance and voxel size based on the number of images loaded in the preceding and current steps, the camera distance and voxel size being suitable as parameters for a volume rendering; and d) repeating the steps b) and c) while increasing the number of image sets with a factor x=x+1, at least one of until all the images of the volume have been loaded in their entirety, and until termination of the method, wherein n=2.