Volume Stitching in Three-Dimensional Echocardiography: Distortion Analysis and Extension to Real Time

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 782-796

  Brekke, Svein ^a   Rabben, Stein I ^b   Støylen, Asbjørn ^a   Haugen, Asbjørn ^b   Haugen, Geir U ^b   Steen, Erik N ^b   Torp, Hans ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b Ge Vingmed Ultrasound AS   (Norway)

Author keywords

2D matrix transducer; Gated acquisition; Geometrical distortion; Real time 3D ultrasound; stitching

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATA ACQUISITION; MEDICAL IMAGING; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

CARDIAC CYCLES; GEOMETRICAL DISTORTION; LEFT VENTRICLE (LV); VOLUME STITCHING;

ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEASIBILITY STUDY; GEOMETRY; HEART CYCLE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART VOLUME; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IN VIVO STUDY; KINEMATICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AGED; ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; CARDIAC OUTPUT, LOW; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; FEMALE; HEART; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; TIME FACTORS; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONICS;

EID: 34247528585     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2006.10.020     Document Type: Article

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