Patent Document ID: 9202271
Application ID: 13642565
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A method for determining a physical property of an object, comprising acts of: providing to a processor from a storage medium volumetric image information of the object having a three-dimensional structure; defining by the processor a plurality of segments in a known generic three-dimensional model of the object, wherein each of the plurality of segments comprises local object context information regarding a shape of a cross-section of the object; determining object context information of the object based on the volumetric image information, wherein the object context information comprises a shape of the object included in the volumetric image information; adapting the known generic three-dimensional model to form an adapted model that matches the object context information comprising the shape of the object included in the volumetric image information; defining measurement planes in the plurality of segments of the adapted model, wherein the measurement planes include the local object context information of the object; determining the local object context information of the object based on the object context information including the shape of the object; determining the physical property of the object along its three-dimensional structure using the local object context information, wherein the physical property of the object comprises a diameter profile of the object including diameters of the object at different portions of the object along its three-dimensional structure; and displaying the object context information including the shape of the object and the physical property including the diameter profile.