Redundant system of passive markers for ultrasound scanhead tracking

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 88-96

  Patruno, Francesca ^a   Aliverti, Andrea ^a   Dellacà, Raffaele L ^a,c   Burns, David ^b,d,e   Pedotti, Antonio ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c Boston University   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Image calibration; Opto electronic motion analysis; Reflective markers; Scanhead tracking; Three dimensional ultrasound

Indexed keywords

CENTER OF MASS LEAST SQUARE (CMLS); REGRESSION PLANE (RP); ROOT-MEAN-SQUARE (RMS); THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3-D) FREEHAND ULTRASOUND IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; DATA ACQUISITION; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; REDUNDANCY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS);

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; ULTRASOUND;

ALGORITHMS; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 11244331425     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2004.839802     Document Type: Article

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