Performance evaluation of a medical robotic 3D-ultrasound imaging system

Medical Image Analysis

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 275-290

  Janvier, Marie Ange ^a,c   Durand, Louis Gilles ^b,c   Cardinal, Marie Hélène Roy ^a,c   Renaud, Isabelle ^a   Chayer, Boris ^a   Bigras, Pascal ^a   de Guise, Jacques ^a,c   Soulez, Gilles ^a,c   Cloutier, Guy ^a,c  

^a CENTRE HOSPITALIER DE L UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b CLIN RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF MONTREAL   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

3D ultrasound imaging system; Arterial stenoses; Calibration phantom; Cardiovascular imaging; Lower limb arterial diseases; Medical robotics; Radiology; Robot accuracy; Robotics; Validation tool

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MEDICAL IMAGING; ROBOTICS; ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

3D-ULTRASOUND IMAGING SYSTEM; CARDIOVASCULAR IMAGING; FERRO-MAGNETIC INTERFERENCES; MEDICAL ROBOTICS; ROBOT ACCURACY; VALIDATION TOOL;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; CLINICAL EVALUATION; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ECHOGRAPHY; ILIAC ARTERY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING SYSTEM; PERIPHERAL OCCLUSIVE ARTERY DISEASE; PHANTOM; POPLITEAL ARTERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; ROBOTICS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ARTERIAL OCCLUSIVE DISEASES; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LEG; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; ROBOTICS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 43749115003     PISSN: 13618415     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.media.2007.10.006     Document Type: Article

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