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William E. Lorensen
Also filed as: LORENSEN WILLIAM · LORENSEN WILLIAM E · LORENSEN WILLIAM EDWARD
32 granted patents·3 pending applications·4,340 citations·filing 1983–2008
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35 records- 0198US4821213ASystem for the simultaneous display of two or more internal surfaces within a solid objectGEN ELECTRIC·Filed 1986·Granted Apr 11, 1989·257 cites·5 claims
- 0298US4710876ASystem and method for the display of surface structures contained within the interior region of a solid bodyGEN ELECTRIC·Filed 1985·Granted Dec 1, 1987·290 cites·16 claims
- 0397US5611025AVirtual internal cavity inspection systemGEN ELECTRIC·Filed 1994·Granted Mar 11, 1997·364 cites·7 claims
- 0497US4984157ASystem and method for displaying oblique planar cross sections of a solid body using tri-linear interpolation to determine pixel position dataesGEN ELECTRIC·Filed 1988·Granted Jan 8, 1991·196 cites·12 claims
- 0597US4729098ASystem and method employing nonlinear interpolation for the display of surface structures contained within the interior region of a solid bodyGEN ELECTRIC·Filed 1985·Granted Mar 1, 1988·239 cites·16 claims
- 0696US4751643AMethod and apparatus for determining connected substructures within a bodyGEN ELECTRIC·Filed 1986·Granted Jun 14, 1988·191 cites·36 claims
- 0796US4719585ADividing cubes system and method for the display of surface structures contained within the interior region of a solid bodyGEN ELECTRIC·Filed 1985·Granted Jan 12, 1988·199 cites·8 claims
- 0896US4525858AMethod and apparatus for reconstruction of three-dimensional surfaces from interference fringesGEN ELECTRIC·Filed 1983·Granted Jun 25, 1985·104 cites·23 claims
- 0995US6631322B1Method and apparatus for vehicle managementGEN ELECTRIC·Filed 2002·Granted Oct 7, 2003·226 cites·29 claims
- 1095US5365927AMagnetic resonance imaging system with pointing deviceGEN ELECTRIC·Filed 1993·Granted Nov 22, 1994·165 cites·6 claims
- 1195US5204625ASegmentation of stationary and vascular surfaces in magnetic resonance imagingGEN ELECTRIC·Filed 1990·Granted Apr 20, 1993·140 cites·8 claims
- 1295US4791567AThree dimensional connectivity system employing an equivalence schema for determining connected substructures within a bodyGEN ELECTRIC·Filed 1986·Granted Dec 13, 1988·114 cites·4 claims
- 1393US5345490AMethod and apparatus for converting computed tomography (CT) data into finite element modelsGEN ELECTRIC·Filed 1991·Granted Sep 6, 1994·196 cites·7 claims
- 1493US5187658ASystem and method for segmenting internal structures contained within the interior region of a solid objectGEN ELECTRIC·Filed 1990·Granted Feb 16, 1993·140 cites·12 claims
- 1593US5166876ASystem and method for detecting internal structures contained within the interior region of a solid objectGEN ELECTRIC·Filed 1991·Granted Nov 24, 1992·127 cites·4 claims
- 1691US7865316B2System, program product, and related methods for registering three-dimensional models to point data representing the pose of a partLOCKHEED CORP·Filed 2008·Granted Jan 4, 2011·27 cites·25 claims
- 1790US5146557AUser interface for a golf green and a golf putt modelling systemGEN ELECTRIC·Filed 1990·Granted Sep 8, 1992·93 cites·18 claims
- 1889US5740802AComputer graphic and live video system for enhancing visualization of body structures during surgeryGEN ELECTRIC·Filed 1995·Granted Apr 21, 1998·551 cites·14 claims
- 1988US5412563AGradient image segmentation methodGEN ELECTRIC·Filed 1993·Granted May 2, 1995·96 cites·14 claims
- 2087US7058210B2Method and system for lung disease detectionGEN ELECTRIC·Filed 2001·Granted Jun 6, 2006·56 cites·17 claims
- 2186US5458126ACardiac functional analysis system employing gradient image segmentationGEN ELECTRIC·Filed 1994·Granted Oct 17, 1995·85 cites·5 claims
- 2286US4831528AApparatus and method for improvement of 3D images derived from tomographic dataGEN ELECTRIC·Filed 1987·Granted May 16, 1989·76 cites·10 claims
- 2384US5433199ACardiac functional analysis method using gradient image segmentationGEN ELECTRIC·Filed 1994·Granted Jul 18, 1995·53 cites·4 claims
- 2478US4879668AMethod of displaying internal surfaces of three-dimensional medical imagesGEN ELECTRIC·Filed 1986·Granted Nov 7, 1989·146 cites·8 claims
- 2575US5542036AImplicit modeling of swept volumes and swept surfacesGEN ELECTRIC·Filed 1994·Granted Jul 30, 1996·56 cites·4 claims
- 2667US5682506AMethod and system for group visualization of virtual objectsGEN ELECTRIC·Filed 1996·Granted Oct 28, 1997·42 cites·7 claims
- 2764US5514962AOblique MR image controlled from a 3D workstation modelGEN ELECTRIC·Filed 1994·Granted May 7, 1996·23 cites·7 claims
- 2861US5900880A3-D surfaces generated from a list of cubic elementsGEN ELECTRIC·Filed 1996·Granted May 4, 1999·33 cites·2 claims
- 2959US6298148B1Method of registering surfaces using curvatureGEN ELECTRIC·Filed 1999·Granted Oct 2, 2001·28 cites·12 claims
- 3044US6463168B1Apparatus and method for rapid connectivity processing of imagesGEN ELECTRIC·Filed 1998·Granted Oct 8, 2002·14 cites·11 claims
- 3140US2005135707A1Method and apparatus for registration of lung image dataFiled 2003·Application pending·0 cites
- 3236US5821942ARay tracing through an ordered arrayGEN ELECTRIC·Filed 1996·Granted Oct 13, 1998·9 cites·8 claims
- 3336US2004102692A1Magnetic resonance imaging system and methods for the detection of brain iron depositsGEN ELECTRIC·Filed 2002·Application pending·0 cites
- 3436US2002094134A1Method and system for placing three-dimensional modelsFiled 2001·Application pending·0 cites
- 3530US6411919B1Method and apparatus for generating cable occupancy volumesGEN ELECTRIC·Filed 1999·Granted Jun 25, 2002·4 cites·14 claims
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