Accurate fiducial location for freehand 3D ultrasound calibration

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6513, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Hsu, Po Wei ^a   Prager, Richard W ^a   Houghton, Neil E ^a   Gee, Andrew H ^a   Treece, Graham M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Calibration; Freehand three dimensional ultrasound

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; PROBLEM SOLVING;

ACCURATE FIDUCIAL LOCATION; AUTOMATIC SEGMENTATION; FREEHAND 3D ULTRASOUND CALIBRATION; THICK BEAMS;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

EID: 35148893220     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.708334     Document Type: Conference Paper

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