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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 19, 1999
Filed:
Jun. 27, 1997
Applicant:
Inventor:
Dong-Chyuan Liu, Mercer Island, WA (US);
Assignee:
Siemens Medical Systems, Inc., Iselin, NJ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
600443 ; 600447 ; 348442 ;
Abstract
A scan conversion method employing a graphical circle generator to calculate a circle having a predetermined radius in the raster domain. The resulting set of (x.sub.i y) points are assigned values from corresponding vector domain points using closest fit and interpolation methods. This process occurs for each value of r in the vector domain. Gaps in the pixel display resulting from quantization errors in the circle generation algorithm are accommodated via a gap interpolation method. In one embodiment, the Bresenham circle generator is employed.