Patent ID: 7787676

Claim:
A method for presenting an anatomic image exposure, composed of image points, to a viewer in a combined presentation with measurement data, comprising the steps of: in a memory accessible by a computer, storing measurement data defining direction information respectively associated with said image points of said anatomical image exposure, said measurement being selected from the group consisting of vectorial measurement data and tensorial measurement data and being correlated in said memory with said image points; at a display screen in communication with said computer, displaying a display representation of said anatomical image exposure that embodies display of said measurement data in said display representation correlated with said image points of said anatomical image exposure; also displaying a screen representation of a manually-operable control tool on said display representation on said display screen and manually operating said control tool to perform an action with said screen representation of said control tool interacting with respective image points of said anatomical image in said display representation exposure, selected from the group consisting of selecting image points of said representation of said anatomical image exposure and sweeping over image points of said representation of said anatomical image exposure; and at a time selected from the group consisting of upon initiation of said action and after initiation of said action, automatically electronically producing a change, through said computer, in at least one of said screen representation of said control tool and speed of movement of screen representation of said control tool, that represents and corresponds to the direction information defined by the measurement data associated with the respective image points with which the tool interacts in said action, and through said change, imparting said representation of said measurement data, correlated with the respective image points, to a user who is manually operating said control tool to perform said action.