Patent ID: 7581191

Claim:
A computer system configured to display and analyze an image including three-dimensional data of an object surface and three-dimensional light data of light emitted from within the object, the computer system comprising: one or more processors; one or more user input devices; a display configured to display the image and associated information in particular ways responsive to input signals from one or more of the input devices and signals from one or more of the processors, wherein the image comprises a three-dimensional topographic representation of the object surface that includes data characterizing the object surface in three dimensions superimposed with a three-dimensional light emitting representation including information describing a magnitude and three-dimensional spatial location of electro-magnetic radiation located within the object, wherein the information describing the three-dimensional spatial location characterizes the relative position in three dimensions between the three-dimensional light emitting representation and the three-dimensional topographic representation of the object surface; a graphical user interface running on one or more of the processors and providing one or more reconstruction tools, wherein when a user uses one of the reconstruction tools, the computer system reconstructs the three-dimensional light emitting representation of the electro-magnetic radiation located within the object; and an opacity setting that allows a user to vary the transparency of the three-dimensional topographic representation of the object surface.