A method for the calibration of 3D ultrasound transducers

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5029, Issue , 2003, Pages 231-238

  Hastenteufel, Mark ^a   Mottl Link, Sibylle ^b   Wolf, Ivo ^a   De Simone, Raffaele ^b   Meinzer, Hans Peter ^a  

^a GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Calibration; Registration; Three dimensional ultrasound

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PROBES; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS;

IMAGE REGISTRATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL ULTRASOUND; ULTRASOUND PROBE;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 0042626110     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.479764     Document Type: Conference Paper

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