Continuous photographing and observing of a three-dimensional image
First Claim
1. Apparatus for continuously producing steroscopic pairs of images of a target for viewing that includesmeans for supporting a target upon a common axis between a transmitter means for irradiating the target and an imaging means for recording two-dimensional radiation images of said target and providing electrical data signals of said recorded images,stage means for producing relative rotation between the target and the transmitter and imaging means so that images of that target may be recorded at uniform angular increments separated by a predetermined number of degrees,memory means connected to the imaging means for storing target image data during each angular increment of rotation,injection means for introducing a contrast material into the target at an interval after the start of rotation,control means connected to the imaging means and the memory means for causing a target image to be recorded and forwarded to the memory means for storing during each angular increment of rotation before injection of said contrast rotation so that a first set of reference images are stored in the memory means and also after injection of said contrast rotation so that a second set of contrast images are also stored in the memory means,arithmetic means associated with said memory means for producing a subtractive drawn image from the reference and contrast image data stored in the memory means for each angular increment of rotation and storing said drawn images in said memory means, anddisplay means connected to the memory means for simultaneously presenting two drawn images for two respective angular increments of rotation of the target for viewing stereoscopically, one to the left eye of an observer and the other to the right eye of the observer, said two drawn images being angularly displaced a predetermined number of degrees so that a stereoscopic picture of the target is presented to the observer.
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Abstract
A target is continuously observed and stereoscopic three-dimensional image information of the target is recorded. A transmitter unit irradiates a target with suitable radiation, an image recording unit records radiation images of the target, a rotating unit incrementally positions the target between the transmitting and image recording units, injecting means places a contrast material into the target, a memory stores a first set of reference images of the target for predetermined number of angular increments prior to injection of said contrast material and stores second set of contrast images for each angular increment of rotation of the target after injection of the contrast material, an arithmetic unit produces a set of drawn or subtractive images of the target from the stored reference and contrast image data, and an indicator unit displays two drawn images of the target that are separated by a certain angular difference so that the two images can be viewed in three dimension using a stereo-scope.
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1. Apparatus for continuously producing steroscopic pairs of images of a target for viewing that includes
means for supporting a target upon a common axis between a transmitter means for irradiating the target and an imaging means for recording two-dimensional radiation images of said target and providing electrical data signals of said recorded images, stage means for producing relative rotation between the target and the transmitter and imaging means so that images of that target may be recorded at uniform angular increments separated by a predetermined number of degrees, memory means connected to the imaging means for storing target image data during each angular increment of rotation, injection means for introducing a contrast material into the target at an interval after the start of rotation, control means connected to the imaging means and the memory means for causing a target image to be recorded and forwarded to the memory means for storing during each angular increment of rotation before injection of said contrast rotation so that a first set of reference images are stored in the memory means and also after injection of said contrast rotation so that a second set of contrast images are also stored in the memory means, arithmetic means associated with said memory means for producing a subtractive drawn image from the reference and contrast image data stored in the memory means for each angular increment of rotation and storing said drawn images in said memory means, and display means connected to the memory means for simultaneously presenting two drawn images for two respective angular increments of rotation of the target for viewing stereoscopically, one to the left eye of an observer and the other to the right eye of the observer, said two drawn images being angularly displaced a predetermined number of degrees so that a stereoscopic picture of the target is presented to the observer.
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19. A method for continuously producing three-dimensional images of a target for viewing that includes the steps of
rotating the target in angular increments in relation to a video camera for recording two-dimensional radiation images of the target and providing digital image signals of said target images irradiating the target during each angular increment to produce a series of two-dimensional reference images, storing the reference images in memory, injecting a contrast material into the target, repeating the rotating and irradiating steps to produce a second series of two-dimensional contrast images. storing the contrast images in memory, performing digital computations on the stored corresponding reference and contrast images to produce an enhanced image of the target for each angular increment of target rotation, storing the enhanced images in memory, and simultaneously displaying two of said enhanced images of the target for respective angular increments and which are angularly displaced a desired number of degrees to produce a stereoscopic picture of the target with one image being presented to the left eye of an observer and the other image being presented to the right eye of the observer.
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