Method and device for displaying medical images

US10448911B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• KONINIKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. · NL

Inventors

• Klaus Erhard · Hamburg, DE
• Hanno Homann · Hamburg, DE
• Jonas Rehn · Danderyd, SE

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 30, 2014
• Grant date: Oct 22, 2019
• Expiry date: Jan 5, 2036

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06T11/008
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

Medical images are acquired in a tomosynthesis process. Processed 3D volume data representing a target acquired from scanning may be viewed from a set of forward projection directions, in which one or more forward projections through the processed 3D volume data is oblique relative to a central acquisition direction of the scanning process. The first set of forward projections is then displayed as a set of synthetic mammograms. Therefore, a medical practitioner can more easily identify abnormalities within a target volume, because the relative displacement of abnormalities at different depths in the target volume will change at different rates dependent on the viewing angle as the viewing position is moved around the target.