HANDLING OF IMAGE DATA CREATED BY MANIPULATION OF IMAGE DATA SETS

摘要

A computer program product for image manipulation of a source data set, the product being operable to: load a source data set, for example of voxel data, for image manipulation by the computer program product; generate and display image data of the source data set by allowing interactive user adjustment of a plurality of operational state conditions; and store the image data of a currently displayed image together with operational state data corresponding to at least a subset of its current operational state conditions in a standard image data format, such as DICOM. Storing operational state data with the image data allows a user later to reload the image data and return the computer program's other important configuration settings, so that a user can seamlessly continue with an interrupted session, either on the same workstation, or on a different workstation at a remote location. This is a major improvement for medical imaging applications, since hospital networks are generally incapable of supporting general-purpose file transfer.