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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 19, 2006
Filed:
Aug. 22, 2002
Hendrik Ditt, Höchstadt, DE;
Norbert Rahn, Forchheim, DE;
Siegfried Wach, Höchstadt, DE;
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;
Abstract
A device for generating fusion images by fusioning two images, in particular medical images, comprising an image-processing computation unit () for fusioning the images, as well as a monitor () connected thereto for image output, a gray-value histogram (I, II) being displayable on the monitor () for each image of the images to be fusioned, which device is designed in such a way that, in each gray-value histogram (I, II) of the images to be fusioned, one or more gray-value ranges can be selected by user-controlled highlighting of one or more markings () on the monitor (), as well as for generating the fusion image with the aid of the selected gray-value ranges.