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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 13, 2019
Filed:
May. 29, 2015
Applicant:
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Inventor:
Erik Normann Steen, Moss, NO;
Assignee:
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 8/08 (2006.01); G06T 15/08 (2011.01); G06T 15/60 (2006.01); G06T 15/80 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 15/08 (2013.01); G06T 15/60 (2013.01); G06T 15/80 (2013.01); A61B 8/483 (2013.01); G06T 2210/41 (2013.01);
Abstract
Various methods and systems are provided for generating a volume-rendered image with shading from a three-dimensional ultrasound dataset. As one example, a method for ultrasound imaging includes generating a volume-rendered image with shading and shadowing from a three-dimensional ultrasound dataset, the shading and shadowing based on an angle between a probe axis of a transducer probe used to acquire the three-dimensional ultrasound dataset and a viewing direction of the volume-rendered image.