Patent ID: 7808514

Claim:
A system for multiplanar reformatting visualization with multiple scrolling speeds, the system comprising: a memory operable in a hierarchal buffer structure, each level of the hierarchal buffer structure having one or more buffers each storing a composite of a number of frames of data, the number for each level being different; a user input operable to receive scrolling speeds, different scrolling speeds mapped to different levels of the hierarchal buffer structure; a processor operable to subtract from, to add to, to modify by means of maximum or minimum operation, or to reblend the composites in each level, and operable to select, as a function of the scrolling speed, one or more buffers for subtracting and adding; and a display operable to display a sequence of images representing scrolling a multiplanar reformatting visualization through a volume at the scrolling speed, each multiplanar reformatting visualization being an average from the composite of one of the buffers of the hierarchal buffer structure.