First results of a clinical study with 3D ultrasound computer tomography

Author

Ruiter, Nicole V. ; Zapf, Michael ; Dapp, R. ; Hopp, T. ; Kaiser, W.A. ; Gemmeke, H.

Author_Institution

Inst. for Data Process. & Electron., Karlsruhe Inst. of Technol., Karlsruhe, Germany

fYear

2013

fDate

21-25 July 2013

Firstpage

651

Lastpage

654

Abstract

The KIT 3D USCT was tested in a pilot study on ten patients. The primary goals of the pilot study were to test the USCT device, the data acquisition protocols, the image reconstruction methods and the image fusion techniques in a clinical environment. The study was conducted successfully; the data acquisition could be carried out for all patients with an average imaging time of six minutes per breast. First reconstructions provide promising images. Overlaid volumes of the modalities show qualitative and quantitative information at a glance. The results led to further optimization of the system and the data acquisition protocol.

Keywords

biomedical ultrasonics; computerised tomography; data acquisition; diagnostic radiography; image fusion; image reconstruction; mammography; medical image processing; optimisation; ultrasonic imaging; 3D ultrasound computer tomography; KIT 3D USCT device; average imaging time; breast; clinical environment; data acquisition protocols; image fusion; image reconstruction; optimization; qualitative information; quantitative information; Apertures; Breast; Data acquisition; Image reconstruction; Magnetic resonance imaging; Three-dimensional displays; 3D; in vivo images; ultrasound computer tomography;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS), 2013 IEEE International

Conference_Location

Prague

ISSN

1948-5719

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-5684-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ULTSYM.2013.0168

Filename

6725062