Patent ID: 7002576

Claim:
A method for analyzing a three dimensional region of interest relative to a predetermined event, the method comprising the steps of: defining a boundary of the event; defining the region of interest relative to the boundary of the event; selecting a first attribute and a second attribute, the first attribute and second attribute representing the region of interest; calculating a first attribute volume and a second attribute volume for the region of interest, the first attribute volume and the second attribute volume each comprising a plurality of voxels, each voxel being defined by a set of x,y,z coordinates and a data value; selecting a first set of voxels from the first attribute volume that have a data value within a first attribute data value range, the first set of voxels representing a preferred feature of the region of interest; selecting a second set of voxels from the second attribute volume that have a data value within a second attribute data value range, the second set of voxels representing the preferred feature; and imaging the first set of voxels and the second set of voxels.