Patent ID: 8294709

Claim:
A medical diagnostic imaging system, said system comprising: a computer unit for manipulating three-dimensional data, said computer unit having computer software operating a display protocol for configuring three-dimensional data for display; a first spatial three-dimensional display unit for displaying a first three-dimensional data set in a first volume of space, wherein said first spatial three-dimensional display unit is also for displaying a surgical path in the first volume of space, wherein the surgical path is based on a series of frames captured from the first three-dimensional data set and represents a surgical blueprint that comprises a path of an instrument or incision that may be made during surgery; a first two-dimensional display unit for displaying at least one two-dimensional data set, wherein said computer unit links the first three-dimensional data set and the first two-dimensional data; and a second spatial three-dimensional display unit for displaying a second three-dimensional data set taken at a different point in time from the first three dimensional data set, wherein parameters of the frames of the surgical path from the first set of data displayed on the first spatial three-dimensional display are mapped on the second three-dimensional data set displayed on the second spatial three-dimensional display and wherein movement through the surgical path displayed on the first spatial three-dimensional display results in corresponding movement through the previously created surgical path from the first set of three dimensional data and displayed on the second spatial three-dimensional display.