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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 29, 2015
Filed:
Aug. 03, 2012
Sean Murphy, Edinburgh, GB;
Andrew Michael Christian Smout, Edinburgh, GB;
Sean Murphy, Edinburgh, GB;
Andrew Michael Christian Smout, Edinburgh, GB;
KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, Tokyo, JP;
TOSHIBA MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION, Otawara-shi, JP;
Abstract
Certain embodiments of the invention provide a computer apparatus and corresponding computer implement method for slab rendering from a three dimensional (3D) image data set of voxel data. Slab rendering is carried out on a stack of slabs of the same thicknesses in the 3D image data set. The whole stack of slabs is rendered together according to a desired filtering operation by applying a one dimensional van-Herk-Gil-Werman (vHGW) algorithm having a segment size one less than the slab thickness to strings of data that run through the whole stack.