US 12,361,608 B2
Enhancements for displaying and viewing tomosynthesis images
Susan Ng, Villanova, PA (US); Peter A. Ringer, Allentown, PA (US); and Johnny Kuo, Lancaster, PA (US)
Assigned to Real Time Tomography, LLC, Villanova, PA (US)
Filed by Real Time Tomography, LLC, Villanova, PA (US)
Filed on May 31, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/804,662.
Application 17/804,662 is a continuation of application No. 16/816,386, filed on Mar. 12, 2020, granted, now 11,361,479.
Application 16/816,386 is a continuation of application No. 14/776,435, granted, now 10,593,069, issued on Mar. 17, 2020, previously published as PCT/US2014/030220, filed on Mar. 17, 2014.
Claims priority of provisional application 61/793,659, filed on Mar. 15, 2013.
Prior Publication US 2022/0292739 A1, Sep. 15, 2022
Int. Cl. G06T 11/00 (2006.01); A61B 6/02 (2006.01); A61B 6/46 (2024.01); G06T 7/00 (2017.01); G06T 15/08 (2011.01)
CPC G06T 11/005 (2013.01) [A61B 6/025 (2013.01); A61B 6/466 (2013.01); G06T 7/0012 (2013.01); G06T 15/08 (2013.01); G06T 2200/04 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30068 (2013.01); G06T 2211/412 (2013.01); G06T 2211/421 (2013.01); G06T 2211/436 (2013.01)] 36 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of dynamically reconstructing three dimensional (3D) tomographic images from a set of projection images, the method comprising, by a processing device:
loading a set of projection images into a memory device, wherein the projection images in the set comprise images of a volume acquired at different time points and at different projection angles;
generating a reconstructed 3D tomographic image from the set of projection images to be displayed to a user;
generating a wobble box within which the reconstructed 3D tomographic image can be rotated for a limited range of angles by changing plane orientations of reconstructed slices in the reconstructed 3D tomographic image;
rendering and displaying the reconstructed 3D tomographic image on a display as a four-dimensional tomographic image that incorporates a measurement of time; and
when displaying the reconstructed 3D tomographic image, doing so with the wobble box.