A robust meshing and calibration approach for sensorless freehand 3D ultrasound

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6513, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Rivaz, Hassan ^a   Boctor, Emad ^a   Fichtinger, Gabor ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

3D ultrasound; Fully developed speckle; Speckle decorrelation

Indexed keywords

DECORRELATION CURVES; FULLY DEVELOPED SPECKLES (FDS); ROBUST MESHING; SPECKLE DECORRELATION;

ALGORITHMS; CALIBRATION; CURVE FITTING; MOTION ESTIMATION; STATISTICAL METHODS; TISSUE CULTURE;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

EID: 35148820685     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.712423     Document Type: Conference Paper

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