METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR VOLUME RENDERING USING DEPTH WEIGHTED COLORIZATION

摘要

A method of volume rendering includes obtaining data (52) representative of a first composited plane of one or more anatomical structures and calculating data (54) of a second composited plane as a function of a first composited plane. The data of the second composited plane is indicative of a measure of depth of the one or more anatomical structures along respective ray cast lines. The method also includes determining (56) depth weighted color values between two different colorization palettes as a function of the measure of depths of the second composited plane. The determined depth weighted color values are applied (58) to the first composited plane for producing a volume rendering image with depth weighted colorization.