Patent ID: 8155418

Claim:
A scanning system for generating at least one view of a portion of a computed tomography image comprising: a controller having a plurality of interconnected devices including: a device for selecting a seed point for a structure of interest within the image; a device for preprocessing a region of interest surrounding the seed point; a device for estimating at least one inertia axis for the region of interest, wherein the device for estimating at least one inertia axis: assigns density values to voxels in the region of interest depending on each voxel's intensity and distance to the seed point; and utilizes the density values to define a main axis of inertia and two other axes of inertia orthogonal to the main axis of inertia; and a device for generating the at least one view from one or more of three planes, defined by one or more of the three axes, that include the seed point and are orthogonal to the at least one axis of inertia.