Patent ID: 8375054

Claim:
A method for providing access to medical information, the medical information being distributed across a plurality of data files, the method comprising: receiving data files being relevant to the medical information, each of the data files being a 2D image slice used to render a volumetric image layout; selecting a current volumetric image layout from a plurality of layouts for making the data files accessible; providing previous layout information, referring to a previous volumetric image layout in which the data file has been acquired, the previous layout information being usable for automatically adapting the current volumetric image layout to the previous volumetric image layout; detecting markers associated with the received data files, the markers referring to a location of interest within one of the received data files, the markers including additional information concerning the location of interest; adapting the markers of the previous volumetric image layout to the current volumetric image layout based on a comparison of coordinate information associated with the marker in order to mark the same location of interest; and providing access to the medical information in the selected current layout, the medical information including the data files and the locations of interest within the data files according to the detected markers, to make browsable the data files and the markers within the data files.