Title :
Incremental 3D ultrasound imaging from a 2D scanner
Author :
Ohbuchi, Ryutarou ; Fuchs, Henry
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., North Carolina Univ., Chapel Hill, NC, USA
Abstract :
The development of an interactive system that will display 3-D structures from a series of 2-D images acquired incrementally by a conventional 2-D ultrasound echographic (2DE) scanner is discussed. The user-guided scanner head is mounted on a mechanical arm that tracks the position and orientation of an image frame. The design and implementation of the system, visualization algorithm, and results of an experiment with a doll phantom to test its feasibility are reported
Keywords :
acoustic imaging; biomedical ultrasonics; 2D scanner; doll phantom; image frame orientation; image frame position; incremental 3D US imaging; interactive system; mechanical arm; medical diagnostic imaging; user-guided scanner head; visualization algorithm; Acoustic imaging; Bandwidth; Data visualization; Head; Parallel processing; Real time systems; Rendering (computer graphics); Three dimensional displays; Two dimensional displays; Ultrasonic imaging;
Conference_Titel :
Visualization in Biomedical Computing, 1990., Proceedings of the First Conference on
Conference_Location :
Atlanta, GA
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-2039-0
DOI :
10.1109/VBC.1990.109343
