Sensorless reconstruction of unconstrained freehand 3D ultrasound data

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 408-419

  Housden, R James ^a   Gee, Andrew H ^a   Treece, Graham M ^a   Prager, Richard W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Freehand 3D ultrasound; Sensorless reconstruction; Speckle decorrelation

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; IMAGE SENSORS; POSITION MEASUREMENT; ULTRASONIC MEASUREMENT;

FREEHAND 3D ULTRASOUND; SENSORLESS RECONSTRUCTION; SPECKLE DECORRELATION;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

ARTICLE; ECHOGRAPHY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSOR; TECHNIQUE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; THREE DIMENSIONAL ULTRASOUND;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; CATTLE; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MEAT; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; ULTRASONICS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 33847065093     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2006.09.015     Document Type: Article

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