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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 06, 2009
Filed:
Jul. 20, 2005
Pascal Cathier, Bures, FR;
Senthil Periaswamy, Malvern, PA (US);
Pascal Cathier, Bures, FR;
Senthil Periaswamy, Malvern, PA (US);
Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc., Malvern, PA (US);
Abstract
A method of storing a digital image in a computer memory includes providing a N-dimensional digital image, defining an offset for each image element (x, . . . , x) by the formula where i is summed over all bits and n is summed over all dimensions. The coefficient K for the ibit of the ndimension is defined as where xis the jdimension, f(x,G,sx)=min(G,sx−└x┘) G is a power ofsxrepresents the size associated with a given dimension, and └x┘=x−x mod G. Image elements are stored in the computer memory in an order defined by the offset of each image element.