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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 18, 2006
Filed:
Oct. 23, 2001
Bert Boehler, Schwabach, DE;
Axel Platz, Munich, DE;
Claus Knapheide, Issaquah, WA (US);
Bernhard Weyermann, Hoechstadt, DE;
Bert Boehler, Schwabach, DE;
Axel Platz, Munich, DE;
Claus Knapheide, Issaquah, WA (US);
Bernhard Weyermann, Hoechstadt, DE;
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;
Abstract
A diagnostic device has a modality for generating raw data representing contents of a volume, a computer for calculating three-dimensional medical images from the raw data, an image system, an input device for setting a transfer function required for an algorithm and a display device for the medical images. The image system determines a histogram distribution of the gray-scale values, and the image system inserts user interface graphics into the displayed image which shows the histogram distribution of the gray-scale values in a histogram window and symbolically represents a trapezoidal transfer function on which values characterizing input fields for transfer functions are arranged at the associated points. A transfer function is on the basis of entries in the input fields and the selected transfer function is inserted in the histogram distribution of the gray-scale values.