Patent ID: 8064986

Claim:
A method for displaying medical image data, said method comprising: generating three-dimensional (3D) volume visualizations for a common region from a plurality of two-dimensional (2D) images acquired continuously over a volume-of-interest (VOI) that includes an entirety of the common region; digitally combining the 3D volume visualizations to form a plurality of four-dimensional (4D) volume visualizations representing the 3D volume visualizations over a period of time, the plurality of 4D volume visualizations including first and second 4D volume visualizations, the first 4D volume visualization including the entirety of the common region during a first time period and the second 4D volume visualization including the entirety of the common region during a different second time period; digitally combining the first and second 4D volume visualizations by digitally processing the first and second 4D volume visualizations to generate a modified 4D volume visualization of the entirety of the common region; and displaying the modified 4D volume visualization on a display, wherein the 3D volume visualizations comprise 3D Maximum Intensity Projection (MIP) volume representations, and the 4D volume visualizations comprise 4D MIP visualizations.