Title :
3D ultrasound display using optical tracking
Author :
Mills, Peter H. ; Fuchs, Henry
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., North Carolina Univ., Chapel Hill, NC, USA
Abstract :
A method for capturing a 3D ultrasound volume from a series of 2D cross-sectional images obtained with a conventional B-mode scanner is presented. Optical tracking of the ultrasound transducer is used to locate the digitized sections within the volume. A simple optical tracking technique, which uses two conventional video cameras and stereopsis, is described, and its freedom-of-motion effects on reconstruction and visualization are discussed
Keywords :
acoustic imaging; biomedical ultrasonics; computerised picture processing; medical computing; patient diagnosis; 2D cross-sectional images; 3D ultrasound display; B-mode scanner; digitized sections; freedom-of-motion effects; medical diagnostic imaging; optical tracking; reconstruction; stereopsis; video cameras; visualization; Acoustic imaging; Cameras; Fetus; Humans; Image reconstruction; Optical imaging; Three dimensional displays; Ultrasonic imaging; Ultrasonic transducers; Visualization;
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.1990.109361
