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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 28, 2012
Filed:
Jun. 12, 2007
Fred S. Azar, Princeton, NJ (US);
Benoit Deroquemaurel, Pennington, NJ (US);
Fred S. Azar, Princeton, NJ (US);
Benoit deRoquemaurel, Pennington, NJ (US);
Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc., Malvern, PA (US);
Abstract
A computer readable medium is provided embodying instructions executable by a processor to perform a method for generating a volumetric mask. The method includes providing a closed surface mesh, determining a discrete volume representation of the closed surface mesh, determining a temporary surface mask based on the closed surface mesh and a slice direction chosen from the discrete volume representation to produce a contour of the closed surface mesh for each slice of the discrete volume representation, and filling a surface defined by the contours to generate the volumetric mask.