Quantitative evaluation of three calibration methods for 3-D freehand ultrasound

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 25, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1492-1501

  Rousseau, François ^b,c   Hellier, Pierre ^d   Letteboer, Marloes M J ^e   Niessen, Wiro J ^a,e,f   Barillot, Christian ^a,d  

^a IEEE

^b CNRS   (France)

^c Faculté de Médecine   (France)

^d INRIA   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^f ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Accuracy evaluation; Calibration; Three dimensional freehand ultrasound; Three dimensional ultrasound reconstruction; Volumetric measurement

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; CALIBRATION; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; DATA ACQUISITION; SURGERY; VOLUMETRIC ANALYSIS;

ACCURACY EVALUATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL FREEHAND ULTRASOUND; THREE DIMENSIONAL ULTRASOUND RECONSTRUCTION; VOLUMETRIC MEASUREMENT;

ULTRASONICS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARD; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VALIDATION STUDY;

ALGORITHMS; CALIBRATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 33750815385     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2006.882134     Document Type: Article

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