Patent Document ID: 8686996
Application ID: 10806980
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A non-transitory program storage device readable by a machine, the device tangibly embodying a program of instructions executable by the machine to perform method steps of imaging a three-dimensional (3D) volume, the method steps comprising: creating one or more three-dimensional (3D) sampling probe(s), wherein each 3D sampling probe is a sub-volume of the 3D volume; drawing an image of the 3D sampling probe(s), the image comprising an intersection of the 3D sampling probe(s) and the 3D volume; and repeating the drawing step responsive to movement of the 3D sampling probe(s) within the 3D volume so that as the 3D sampling probe(s) moves through the 3D volume, the image of the 3D sampling probe(s) is redrawn substantially at the same time as the 3D sampling probe is moved.