CT & MRI Digital 3D and 4D Reconstruction

Why Digital Reconstruction?  Surgeons operating on a tumor don't cut out a 2D slice, so why not look at a 3D image? A 3D image can tell the surgeon what he or she will find in the OR. And since noninvasive exams, or minimally invasive procedures such as catheter-based scans, are generally better for the patient than general anesthesia and surgery, using 3D images of the target site will allow more and more procedures to be done percutaneously.

3D & 4D CT/MR Reconstruction CT and MRI images have traditionally been read in a standard two dimensional format and sent to referring physicians using X-Ray film. This limited their view and thus the information that could be obtained. Now with the images obtained from our powerful new scanners and reconstructed with new sophisticated computer technology  we can view your body in 3 and 4 dimensions. This allows the reading radiologist to have an unprecedented look into your body and see the potential problems the way they actually exist in your body, in multiple dimensions! Advanced visualization techniques like 3D and computer-aided detection are rapidly changing the way radiologists read medical images. As a result, radiology is moving away from traditional 2D images and toward a volumetric world of new diagnostic and therapeutic possibilities.  3D has changed from a technology once perceived as a clinical novelty into an invaluable tool for many imaging specialists. "(Three-dimensional) imaging has the ability to display in a single image or a fewer number of images the same amount of information that require hundreds or even thousands of 2D axial images to see the same information," said Tom Naypauer, product manager of CT visualization for Philips Medical Systems of Andover, MA

What do these Reconstruction Images look like?