Rotational motion in sensorless freehand three-dimensional ultrasound

Ultrasonics

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 412-422

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Freehand 3D ultrasound; Rotation; Sensorless reconstruction; Speckle decorrelation

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVES; IMAGE REGISTRATION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; ROTATION; SENSORS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; ULTRASONICS;

DE-CORRELATION; DRIFT ERRORS; FREEHAND 3D ULTRASOUND; FREEHAND THREE-DIMENSIONAL ULTRASOUND; IMAGE-BASED; IMAGE-BASED TECHNIQUES; IN VITRO EXPERIMENTS; IN-PLANE MOTION; ORIENTATION MEASUREMENTS; OUT-OF PLANE; OUT-OF-PLANE MOTION; POSITION ESTIMATES; POSITION SENSORS; REGISTRATION METHODS; ROTATIONAL MOTIONS; SENSOR-LESS; SENSORLESS RECONSTRUCTION; SPECKLE DECORRELATION;

ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; METHODOLOGY; MOTION; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MOTION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 49949096052     PISSN: 0041624X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultras.2008.01.008     Document Type: Article

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