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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 19, 2016
Filed:
May. 23, 2013
Applicant:
Intrinsic Medical Imaging Llc, Bloomfield Hills, MI (US);
Inventor:
Lee R. McKenzie, Howell, MI (US);
Assignee:
Intrinsic Medical Imaging, LLC, Bloomfield Hills, MI (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/0033 (2013.01);
Abstract
A machine-implemented display method that, with respect to a volume dataset being rendered, enables a user to navigate to any position in space and look in any direction. An enhanced display method for this type of dataset improves upon known Maximum Intensity Projection (MIP) techniques. The enhanced method, 'Relative MIP,' uses a different approach to pixel value rendering. Relative MIP draws information from an amount of difference present between a current pixel and its neighbors, and then visualizes the maximum intensity of this difference.