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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 28, 2020
Filed:
Feb. 07, 2017
Applicant:
Siemens Healthcare Gmbh, Erlangen, DE;
Inventors:
Kaloian Petkov, Lawrenceville, NJ (US);
Christoph Vetter, Hopewell, NJ (US);
Daphne Yu, Yardley, PA (US);
Assignee:
Siemens Healthcare GmbH, Erlangen, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 15/08 (2011.01); G06T 15/06 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 15/08 (2013.01); G06T 15/06 (2013.01); G06T 2210/41 (2013.01); G06T 2210/56 (2013.01);
Abstract
Physically-based volume rendering produces pixels. By assigning depths to the pixels, a 3D point cloud is generated. For more rapid rendering, such as due to user interaction, the 3D point cloud rendering is a proxy to physically-based volume rendering. The rendering parameters for the desired image may be determined using the proxy, and then physically-based volume rendering is performed to obtain the desired image.