CROSS REFERENCE MEASUREMENT FOR DIAGNOSTIC MEDICAL IMAGING

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To easily provide information to more facilitate decision making on diagnosis.

SOLUTION: Measurements in diagnostic medical imaging are cross-referenced. A measurement mode (54) for one type of data is reflected (60) in an image for another type of data. For example, a length is measured (54) from ultrasound data. A line associated with the length is displayed (58) on the ultrasound image. In a magnetic resonance image (MRI), the same line is displayed (60) at a corresponding location. The same measurement (54) may also be made with the MRI data and reflected (60) in the ultrasound image. Each image shows both measurements in this example. The difference (62) in the same measurements from different types of data may be useful for diagnosis. In the above example, the length is measured (54) from ultrasound and from MRI. The difference (62) between the two measured lengths may provide diagnostically useful information.

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