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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 18, 2025
Filed:
Apr. 06, 2023
Siemens Healthineers Ag, Forchheim, DE;
Kaloian Petkov, Lawrenceville, NJ (US);
Siemens Healthineers AG, Forchheim, DE;
Abstract
For real-time rendering of medical images from volumetric data obtained from a medical scanner, one or more optical properties of the received volumetric data are determined. A light volume associated to a spherical light source is constructed. The light volume comprises a series of consecutive spherical slices through which light propagates while determining a fraction of the light propagating from one spherical slice to a neighboring spherical slice depending on the optical properties. The constructed light volume is sampling with a gradient-free shading that depends on the determined optical properties. At least one medical image is rendered in relation to the received volumetric data based on the sampled light volume.