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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 22, 2014
Filed:
May. 29, 2009
Rajesh Kushwaha, Bangalore, IN;
Vivek Nair, Bangalore, IN;
Renganathan Ramamoorthy, Bangalore, IN;
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;
Abstract
At least one embodiment of the present invention provides a fast method and system for rendering a medical image. At least one embodiment of the method includes providing a 3D voxel dataset of the heart and generating a 3D vector representation of a selected part of the heart. At least one embodiment of the method further involves the blending of the 3D voxel dataset and the 3D vector representation in a common buffer and finally rendering the medical image, wherein the rendering is based on the blended 3D voxel dataset and the 3D vector representation, such that the selected part of the heart is highlighted.