Design and test of a PC-based portable three-dimensional ultrasound software system Ultra3D

Abstract Currently, portable ultrasound units lack three-dimensional (3D) image display, limiting their potential usefulness especially under remote and hostile operating environments where information must be intuitive and objective. A freehand 3D image processing and visualization software package...

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Published inComputers in biology and medicine Vol. 38; no. 2; pp. 244 - 251
Main Authors Xu, X. George, Hum Na, Yong, Zhang, Tiantian
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States Elsevier Ltd 01.02.2008
Elsevier Limited
Subjects
Fetus - anatomy & histology
Gallbladder - diagnostic imaging
Humans
Imaging, Three-Dimensional - instrumentation
Imaging, Three-Dimensional - methods
Internal Medicine
Microcomputers
Other
Phantoms, Imaging
Portable
Processing
Software
Three-dimensional
Ultrasonography, Doppler - instrumentation
Ultrasonography, Doppler - methods
Ultrasonography, Prenatal
Ultrasound
User-Computer Interface
Visualization
Portable
Visualization
Three-dimensional
Ultrasound
Processing
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Summary:Abstract Currently, portable ultrasound units lack three-dimensional (3D) image display, limiting their potential usefulness especially under remote and hostile operating environments where information must be intuitive and objective. A freehand 3D image processing and visualization software package, Ultra3D, has been developed and tested, especially to work with a miniaturized linear-array transducer probe that is connected to a laptop PC. This paper presents the software design and method to integrate Ultra3D into Terason's miniaturized SmartProbe ™ for freehand 3D ultrasound imaging. Since images generated by Ultra3D are in a digital imaging and communications in medicine (DICOM) format, data sharing with others is easy.
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ISSN:0010-4825
1879-0534
DOI:10.1016/j.compbiomed.2007.10.003