Patent · US Expired

Method and apparatus for processing and playback of digital images at a display monitor

US6429884B1 · kind B1 · utility

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8References

17Claims

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Assignee

Siemens Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

Sebastian Budz · Erlangen, DE
Klaus Ludwig · Erlangen, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Nov 22, 1999
Grant date	Aug 6, 2002
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Nov 22, 2019

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG06T2219/2021
WIPO fieldMeasurement
WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

In a method and apparatus for presenting and processing an image reproducible at a display monitor, wherein digital image data of an examination volume of a subject are registered with an image pickup system, such as a medical examination installation, the examination volume or a part thereof is played back at the display monitor as a three-dimensional image, and a volume region of the image is defined with a marker, this volume region or the image environment thereof being removed from the image and no longer displayed in a subsequent image presentation.

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