Patent Document ID: 7656418
Application ID: 10559212
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A method for interactive adjustment of a 3D ultrasound image of an object, the method comprising the acts of: acquiring a loop of 3D image data of the object, and providing a 3D image of the object on a display for user viewing; and activating a crop mode via a user interface in response to a user input, wherein a cropping plane is generated and oriented in relation to the orientation of the image of the object in image space, and the cropping plane is displayed along with the 3D image, and wherein the user may manipulate the user interface to control the orientation of the cropping plane in the image space with respect to the orientation of the image, wherein the cropping plane includes a tangent to a sphere centered at a center of the object being imaged, and wherein the image has a first color on a first side of the cropping plane and has a second color on a second side of the cropping plane, the first color being a color of the cropping plane.