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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 19, 2010
Filed:
Mar. 07, 2005
Gundolf Kiefer, Aachen, DE;
Helko Lehmann, Aachen, DE;
Jurgen Weese, Aachen, DE;
Marc Busch, Aachen, DE;
Gundolf Kiefer, Aachen, DE;
Helko Lehmann, Aachen, DE;
Jurgen Weese, Aachen, DE;
Marc Busch, Aachen, DE;
Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Abstract
Medical imaging modalities generate increasingly more and very large three-dimensional data sets. According to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, a three-dimensional data set of an object of interest is interactively visualized with a varying sampling rate in an image. Advantageously, a focus area may be moved by a user interactively during rendering, wherein the sampling rate of a particular part of the image is defined by its relative position to the focus area. Advantageously, this may allow for an improvement of an overall rendering performance.