Publication detail

CROSS-WIRE CALIBRATION FOR FREEHAND 3D ULTRASONOGRAPHY

Anagnostoudis, A., Jan, J.

Original Title

CROSS-WIRE CALIBRATION FOR FREEHAND 3D ULTRASONOGRAPHY

Type

conference paper

Language

English

Original Abstract

3D freehand ultrasound is an imaging technique, which is gradually finding clinical applications. A position sensor is attached to a conventional ultrasound probe, so that B-scans are acquired along with their relative locations. This allows the B-scans to be inserted into a 3D regular voxel array, which can then be visualized using arbitrary-plane slicing, and volume or surface rendering. A key requirement for correct reconstruction is the calibration: determining the position and orientation of the B-scans with respect to the position sensor’s receiver. Following calibration, interpolation in the set of irregularly spaced B-scans is required to reconstruct a regular-voxel array. This text describes a freehand measurement of 2D ultrasonic data, which is currently performed at the department of Biomedical Engineering of the Brno University of Technology, and an approach to the calibration problem. In the full text will be presented the final calibration results and several numerical issues concerned with the calibration.

Authors

Anagnostoudis, A., Jan, J.

Released

20. 11. 2005

Pages from

1692

Pages to

1696

Pages count

5

BibTex

@inproceedings{BUT15005,
  author="Asterios {Anagnostoudis} and Jiří {Jan}",
  title="CROSS-WIRE CALIBRATION FOR FREEHAND 3D ULTRASONOGRAPHY",
  booktitle="CD 3rd European Medical & Biological Engineering Conference EMBEC'05",
  year="2005",
  pages="5"
}