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

US6603868B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• Siemens Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

• Klaus Ludwig · Erlangen, DE
• Gerold Herold · Erlangen, DE
• Sebastian Budz · Erlangen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 22, 1999
• Grant date: Aug 5, 2003
• Expiry date: Nov 22, 2019

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10S128/922
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

In a method and apparatus for presentation of images reproducible at a display monitor, digital image data of an examination volume of a subject are registered with an image pickup system, such as a medical examination installation, and at least two images of the examination volume with arbitrary orientation of the image planes relative to one another are simultaneously displayed at the display monitor. At least one marker is contained in each image that indicates information about the position of the image plane of the other image with reference to the image wherein the marking is displayed.