Method and apparatus for projecting diagnostic images from volumed diagnostic data

An apparatus generating a diagnostic image of a body comprising:

• a means for directing a radiated energy through a region of interest of the body;
• a means for detecting the interaction of the energy with the body to acquire data at a plurality of voxels, the voxels having spatial coordinates located within the region of interest wherein the value of the datum of each voxel corresponds to a physical property of the body at the spatial coordinate;
• a means for transforming the spatial coordinates of each voxel by a rotation about a first and second perpendicular axis;
• a means for compressing the voxels along a third axis orthogonal to the first and second axis to produce data of pixels in a plane, the pixels having first and second image coordinates orthogonal to the third axis;
• a means for transforming the image coordinates of each pixel by rotation about the third orthogonal axis;
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• a means for displaying the pixel data by mapping each pixel to a point on a display with display coordinates corresponding to the image coordinates.