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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 20, 2001
Filed:
Feb. 17, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Christian Lorenz, Hamburg, DE;
Jürgen Weese, Hamburg, DE;
Assignee:
U.S. Philips Corporation, New York, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/05 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/05 ;
Abstract
The invention relates to a medical diagnostic method in which a two-dimensional image can be derived from a data set representing a three-dimensional examination zone while especially emphasizing given structures. The data set is subjected to a filtering operation and from the voxels which are projected onto the same pixel in the two-dimensional image a voxel is selected in dependence on its image value in the second data set. This voxel is reproduced with its original image value in the two-dimensional image.