Patent ID: 8682415

Claim:
A medical imaging system comprising: a scanner configured to continuously acquire image data sets of a patient lying along an examination axis; a computing system configured to digitally combine reconstructed three-dimensional (3D) volume visualizations that are based on the image data sets to form 4D volume visualizations representing the 3D volume visualizations over a period of time, the 4D volume visualizations including first and second 4D volume visualizations that include a common 3D volume of the patient during different first and second time periods, respectively, wherein the computing system digitally combines the first and second 4D volume visualizations to generate a 4D cine movie that represents the common 3D volume during a third time period, which is different than each of the first and second time periods; a display operatively coupled to the computing system and configured to display the cine movie; and wherein the 3D volume visualizations comprise 3D Maximum Intensity Projection (MIP) volume representations.