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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 06, 2002
Filed:
Oct. 14, 1999
Fuyuhiko Teramoto, Kashiwa, JP;
Hitachi Medical Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A three-dimensional image processing apparatus, which forms three-dimensional image data by combining a plurality of two-dimensional data and displays the formed three-dimensional images, makes it possible to continuously output the three-dimensional images at a plurality of measurement positions. An image processing unit composes data in order to produce the three-dimensional image data. In the composition, the latest three-dimensional image data is recursively produced by combining the second latest three-dimensional image data and the latest two-dimensional image data. Every time the two-dimensional image data is acquired at each measurement position, the image processing unit produces three-dimensional image data from a measurement starting position up to the latest measurement position and displays the three-dimensional image. This enables the real-time display of the three-dimensional image data during the measurement before the acquisition of the two-dimensional image data at all the measurement positions is completed.