A Three-Dimensional Transrectal Ultrasound Imaging System

Author

Chen, Yimin ; Qi, Jian ; Zhang, Xuming ; Ding, Mingyue

Author_Institution

Key Lab. of Image Process. & Intell. Control, Huazhong Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Wuhan, China

fYear

2011

fDate

14-17 Dec. 2011

Firstpage

8

Lastpage

11

Abstract

A three dimensional transrectal ultrasound imaging system has been developed. The proposed system is aimed at monitoring for the prostate and providing three-dimensional ultrasound image for prostate biopsy and therapy. The device contains mechanical device and control circuit for the rotation of the probe. In addition, a two dimensional ultrasound machine for 2D ultrasound imaging is used and the software system for the reconstruction of three-dimensional ultrasound image based on PC is developed. Experiments are performed in phantom to validate our prototype. The 3D scan of the agar phantom produces minimal geometric distortion. In the future, our system will be tested on patients.

Keywords

biological organs; biomedical ultrasonics; image reconstruction; medical image processing; ultrasonic imaging; 3D transrectal ultrasound imaging system; agar phantom; prostate biopsy; prostate therapy; ultrasound image reconstruction; Biopsy; Image reconstruction; Phantoms; Three dimensional displays; Transducers; Ultrasonic imaging;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Intelligent Computation and Bio-Medical Instrumentation (ICBMI), 2011 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Wuhan, Hubei

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-1152-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICBMI.2011.42

Filename

6131722