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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 22, 2005
Filed:
May. 15, 2002
Arianne M. C. Van Muiswinkel, Best, NL;
Ronaldus F. J. Holthuizen, Son en Breugel, NL;
Arianne M. C. van Muiswinkel, Best, NL;
Ronaldus F. J. Holthuizen, Son en Breugel, NL;
Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Abstract
An imaging method for imaging a subject () including fibrous/anisotropic structures () includes acquiring three-dimensional image representations without and with a plurality of different diffusion weighting and directions. When a user () hovers a selection device over a voxel of the image, a fiber representation () is extracted in substantially real time. The representation is generated by following a direction of a major eigenvector efrom voxel to voxel. A human-viewable display of the fiber representation is produced ().