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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 31, 2010
Filed:
Nov. 22, 2006
Rainer Wegenkittl, Sankt Poelten, AT;
Donald K. Dennison, Waterloo, CA;
John J. Potwarka, Waterloo, CA;
Lukas Mroz, Vienna, AT;
Armin Kanitsar, Vienna, AT;
Gunter Zeilinger, Vienna, AT;
Rainer Wegenkittl, Sankt Poelten, AT;
Donald K. Dennison, Waterloo, CA;
John J. Potwarka, Waterloo, CA;
Lukas Mroz, Vienna, AT;
Armin Kanitsar, Vienna, AT;
Gunter Zeilinger, Vienna, AT;
Agfa HealthCare Inc., Toronto, CA;
Abstract
A cursor mode display system and method for indicating an offset distance between a cursor position on an image and a closest image slice in a corresponding image series. First, the three-dimensional coordinates associated with the cursor position on the image are determined by projecting the cursor position onto a three-dimensional patient coordinate system. The closest image slice is then identified as the image slice in the corresponding image series that is closest to the three-dimensional coordinates of the cursor position. The offset distance between the closest image slice and the three-dimensional coordinates associated with the cursor position is then calculated. If the offset distance does not exceed a threshold value, then the closest image slice is displayed. Otherwise a modified version of the closest image slice is displayed.