Nearly real-time visualization of arbitrary two-dimensional sections from three-dimensional acquisition

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 319-328

  Capineri, L ^a   Masotti, Leonardo ^a   Rocchi, S ^b   Andreuccetti, F ^c   Cerofolini, M ^c   Tondini, A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^c Esaote   (Italy)

Author keywords

Echocardiography; Real time processing board; Three dimensional acquisition; Two dimensional section reconstruction

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER HARDWARE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DATA ACQUISITION; DIAGNOSIS; DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; PIPELINE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ECHOGRAPHIC SCANNERS; REALTIME PROCESSING BOARD; THREE DIMENSIONAL ACQUISITION; TWO DIMENSIONAL SECTION RECONSTRUCTION;

ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; NONHUMAN; ORIENTATION; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME ECHOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

EID: 0029873419     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0301-5629(95)02048-9     Document Type: Article

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