Design and development of a 3D ultrasound phantom scanner

Author

Ammer, S. I H ; Beech-Brandt, J. ; Chen, C. ; Poepping, T.L. ; Easson, W.J. ; Hoskins, P.R.

Author_Institution

Inst. of Mater. & Process., Edinburgh Univ., UK

Volume

2

fYear

2003

fDate

17-21 Sept. 2003

Firstpage

1184

Abstract

A 3D Ultrasound (US) phantom scanning device has been developed to provide calibration data for image processing and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) as part of a study into the biomechanical status of diseased arteries in vivo. The cartesian scanning system moves a conventional US probe from a Philips HDI5000 US scanner over the upper surface of the phantom. The device can scan phantoms of up to 150 mm long and 75 mm wide. The transducer can be rotated about two axes and translated in one axis manually. X and Y planar movements are made automatically. Control is provided by a labVIEW based control program and a Parker L25i stepper motor driver system. scalar and rotary positional accuracies are ±50μm and ±0.1° respectively.

Keywords

biomechanics; biomedical transducers; biomedical ultrasonics; blood vessels; diseases; fluid dynamics; image scanners; medical image processing; phantoms; 3D ultrasound (US) phantom scanning device; X planar movements; Y planar movements; cartesian scanning system; computational fluid dynamics; conventional ultrasound probe; diseased arteries biomechanical status; image processing calibration data; labview based control program; phantoms; rotary positional accuracies; scalar positional accuracies; stepper motor driver system; transducer; Arteries; Automatic control; Calibration; Computational fluid dynamics; Control systems; Image processing; Imaging phantoms; In vivo; Probes; Ultrasonic imaging;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2003. Proceedings of the 25th Annual International Conference of the IEEE

ISSN

1094-687X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7789-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.2003.1279461

Filename

1279461